The computing industry has just begun taking the VP8 codec seriously, but Google wants people to adopt its brand-new successor. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

For HEVC, the legal risk (Figure 1, below) is probably something I don't need to talk about much. The patent mechanism, the number of pools, and the amount of confusion it's bringing to the market is ...

For a second time, Google is attempting to pitch a compression format as the replacement for an H.26X compressor. They tried to do it three years ago for HD video when they pitched VP8 as a ...

With VLC 2.1.1, VideoLAN continues to sidestep the software patent licensing minefield of video compression. Meanwhile, open-source allies put muscle behind the new Daala codec. Stephen Shankland ...

Figure 1. HEVC divides video frames into a hierarchical quadtree coding structure that uses coding units, prediction units and transform units. CUs, TUs and PUs are grouped in a treelike structure, ...

YouTube has begun rolling out VP9 codec support to videos uploaded to the website to improve video compression and speed. The Google-owned company announced the changes on Monday. Google says the ...

The latest iteration of Google’s video codec for Internet streaming applications is called VP9, and it is starting to gain traction in the turbulent market for video codecs. Introduced in mid-2013, ...

It's official. As I reported last week, Microsoft is now supporting Google's open-source WebM/VP9 video in its Windows 10 Edge web-browser. This move is part of Microsoft, along with Google and ...

Google’s VP9 plays on about 60% of browsers today, as compared to 0% for HEVC, it delivers similar quality to H.264 at 50-60% of the data rate, and ultimately it may be the only UHD codec that plays ...

Last month, Google revealed that it was planning to finish defining its VP9 video codec on June 17 (today), after which it will start using the next-generation compression technology in Chrome and on ...

LAS VEGAS, April 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- NGCodec, a pioneer in cloud video processing, is demonstrating the world's highest compression efficiency cloud video encoders and announcing their ...

Broadcom's integration of the Google VP9 standard will allow users to stream 4K YouTube content to their set-top boxes and display to a TV. The codec provides up to 50 percent bitrate reduction for ...