Usually, when a new video compression scheme arrives it takes so long before there's a combination of compatible hardware and content that its arrival is anticlimactic. Google, Apple, Netflix, ...

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AV1 compression technology from companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Netflix is here. And it's blowing up the video industry's patent rules, too. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

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You can now try AV1 video compression in a browser. Video files are at least 25 percent smaller than Apple's preferred format, Mozilla says. Stephen Shankland worked ...

According to the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), an organisation formed to define and develop media technologies to address marketplace demand for an open standard for video compression and ...

AWS Elemental MediaConvert has added support for the creation of the AV1 (AOMedia Video 1) format in 4K frame sizes and with 10-bit colour depth. MediaConvert is AWS Elemental’s file-based transcoding ...

What are “HEVC”, “AV1”, and “VVC”? The most mainstream video codec was MPEG-LA 's H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding). You can find out how AVC compresses movies by reading the following article. How ...

May 13, 2019 -- Amphion has announced the scheduled availability of a hardware based AV1 decoding extension to its Malone family of high performance video decoders for SoC implementation. AV1 is the ...