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. Stephen Shankland ...

If you have plans to deliver 4K video when the UHD standard goes mainstream, a migration to HEVC is almost certainly in your future. But should you make the jump now with the HD video you're ...

Video is the Internet. The networking giant Cisco estimates it consumed about 70 percent of all online traffic in 2014, and that share will rise to between 80 and 90 percent by 2018. The ...

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 ...

A new industry group called HEVC Advance is threatening to demand royalties for the new HEVC video codec that could halve the bandwidth required for streaming online video or offer higher resolutions ...

In the ever-evolving world of technology and video capture and formats, new standards often appear to enhance our digital lives. A good example of this is the high-performance file formats and codecs ...

Upcoming support of the HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding ) codec in macOS High Sierra and iOS 11 will help to improve file efficiency of high quality video files. With an added emphasis on high ...

H.264. HEVC. VP9. If these terms mean nothing to you, you’re not alone. Each is a kind of video codec. Though they’re responsible for every second of video we watch online or on a Blu-ray, most people ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Access Advance LLC, an independent licensing administrator for leading video codec patent pools, today announced that Xiaomi has joined the HEVC Advance Patent Pool and the ...

HEVC, or High-Efficiency Video Coding, is a video compression standard. It is also known as H.265 or MPEG-H Part 2. It is a successor to AVC or H.264 or MPEG-4. HEVC maintains the same video quality ...