The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) today announced significant ecosystem momentum behind AV2, its next-generation royalty-free video codec, just four months after the specification's official ...

The technology, also called H.265 and the successor to H.264, promises to double video quality for better streaming and higher-res TV. But it'll come with a patent burden, too. One aspect of of HEVC ...

As much as we love debating the pros and cons of new codecs like AV1, VVC, and LCEVC, independent premium-content publishers have largely ignored them. Take Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) founding ...

Valve released a fresh Steam Beta for all platforms which now includes their own experimental new Pyrowave video codec for Remote Play.

The author is owner of Kline Consulting and former corporate director of engineering and broadcast IT for several radio companies. The large choice of codecs available on the market can be ...

Codec IC chips are used to encode and decode or compress and decompress various types of data, particularly when bulk storage is required. Codec is an abbreviation for coder-decoder or ...

Opus is the best general-purpose audio codec most people have never chosen on purpose. It is inside every WhatsApp voice note, every Discord call and every ...

Bluetooth is perhaps one of the most enigmatic technologies around. Fittingly symbolized by Scandinavian runes and named after a king who likely had a nasty dental problem, this mysterious technology ...

SBC, AAC, and LDAC are the three most common codecs. SBC is a widely supported Bluetooth audio codec. AAC is commonly used ...

Mozilla, Opera (and Google) aren’t the only ones supporting the open-sourced VP8 video codec in their browsers. Microsoft is going to do the same, as well, according to my tipsters. Update: It seems ...