This week, Telestream announced the availability of an open source H.265 (HEVC) encoder, co-founded and managed by MulticoreWare Inc. I had a chance to speak with Telestream CTO Shawn Carnahan about ...

Telestream has announced the availability of a new open source High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) H.265 encoder. The so-called “x265 project” is looking to create the world’s most efficient, highest ...

Telestream has announced the public availability of an open source H.265 (HEVC) encoder. The new project aims to create the world’s most efficient, highest quality H.265 codec. The iniative is being ...

GPAC is an open-source media player that can be used to play back live or file-based audio and video content and encapsulate and transmit such content as a stream. Through the active collaboration of ...

One of the things that makes it possible to stream 4K Ultra HD video over the internet is video compression: it takes a lot of bandwidth to stream a 4K video, but it takes a lot less to stream a H.265 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s a lot of interest in ultra-high definition (UHD) video, and the two codecs that drive it, HEVC and VP9. Over the past few months, a new UHD codec called Daala has also come to the fore. I ...

AOMedia's AV2 codec cuts bitrate use by around 30%, improves streaming efficiency, but requires much greater decoding power.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Balancing Open Source Codecs and Proprietary Solutions If there’s one thing the Pro AV industry is known for, it’s our continued ...

Hardware and software support for the royalty-free AV1 video codec has been steadily building over the last couple years. Hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding is becoming standard in more GPUs, ...

ATEME has announced its open source implementation of a software media player supporting High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is now available. The implementation will allow service providers and ...