It’s been 3-plus years since the MPEG codec explosion that brought us VVC, LCEVC, and EVC. Rather than breathlessly trumpet every single-digit quality improvement or design win, I’ll quickly get you ...

H.264 is the closest we have to a universal codec, which is why it was surprising that in Bitmovin's "Video Developer Report 2021," H.264 usage actually dropped from 92% in 2020 to 83% in 2021 among ...

For brands, consistency across channels is essential. Structured video formats help maintain a unified visual language, ensuring that content feels cohesive regardless of where it appears. Elements ...

Sanuj Bhatia, the managing editor at Pocketnow, is responsible for supervising and contributing to all the content published on the website, including news, reviews, features, and how-tos. He began ...

Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

A new report from mobile and video technology research company InterDigital spotlights Versatile Video Coding (VVC/H.266) as a standout video codec with a highly versatile design for use across an ...

Replay: NVIDIA has released a demo of how it is using AI to revolutionise video conferencing. This is the future of video codecs. Called NVIDIA Maxine, the new AI system can not only cram high quality ...

LONDON—The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has published V-Nova’s VC-6 video codec as the SMPTE ST-2117 standard, the company announced today. Ratification of VC-6 as a SMPTE ...

Video-compression provider On2 Technologies said Tuesday it will release an open-source version of its video-compression technology, or codec. Video codecs are pieces of software that are used to ...

Codecs and containers are two of the most confusing bits of jargon that modern videomakers have to try and they their heads around. So what do they mean, and what do they do - and which do you choose?

There are hundreds of Internet video formats, but fortunately for you, you can ignore most of them. It’s all too easy to get tangled up in the seemingly endless number of video formats on the Web.