In 2020, the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) plans to launch three different codecs. To put that in perspective, there was a nine-year gap between MPEG-2 (1994) and H.264 (2003), and a ten-year ...

AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) was invented by a group of technology companies to be an open, royalty-free alternative to other video codecs, like HEVC/H.265. But a lawsuit that Dolby Laboratories Inc. filed ...

You don’t notice good video compression—until it’s not there. For years, people have streamed high-resolution video without thinking about the tech behind it. But when companies clash over which ...

The takeaway: For years, the industry has touted AV1 as the codec capable of sidestepping the royalty and litigation thicket surrounding HEVC. Now, a new lawsuit from Dolby Laboratories against Snap ...

“For VVC to capture market share among cellular device manufacturers, VVC’s royalty rates will have to be very attractive compared to the rates for AVC and AV1.” The Versatile Video Coding standard ...

It’s not that long ago that the video codec market was fairly simple with AVC (H.264) being in wide use, MPEG 2 still propping up SD broadcasting and a bubbling undercurrent of HEVC. For many today, ...