As we approach IBC, we thought it was time for an update on efforts of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) to move the AV1 codec forward. The AOM had a board meeting just a few days before the article ...

NAB shows are like the proverbial elephant; your impressions are created where you touch the show, and you seldom get a feel for the entire beast. From my perspective, NAB 2018 was about codecs, ...

A mode on DVD/Blu-ray players that outputs Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound "bitstreams" from the disc without decoding them. The decoding is performed in the A/V receiver or audio processor. Also ...

Video compression plays a pivotal role in modern media streaming, influencing everything from the quality of the content we enjoy, to the efficiency of data transmission. One of the latest ...

This article assumes a basic understanding of video compression algorithms. For an introduction to video coders, see How video compression works. Announced in the fall of 2008, On2 Technologies' 8 th ...

Announced in the fall of 2008, On2 Technologies' 8th generation video codec, On2 VP8 offers significant gains in compression performance in a bitstream that is less compute intensive to decode than ...