We asked a sampling of industry engineers and users for their perspectives on the evolution of codec designs and applications ...
Previous iterations of the codec narrative have produced predictable outcomes with incremental efficiency gains, gradual deployment, and long-tail coexistence with previous standards. The same is ...
Welcome to your codec update for 2023. I’m here to help you decide whether it’s time to go all in on AV1, VVC, LCEVC, or EVC or whether it’s better to stick with H.264, VP9, and HEVC. As an overview, ...
After 5 years of work and over 2700 commits against the reference software, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) has ...
Neat's Tormod Ree argues centralized codecs limit AV flexibility, advocating for distributed intelligence to enable scalable, ...
“Emerging” codecs like AV1, VP9, and HEVC are hardly newcomers to the streaming scene, and their implementation and breadth of industry support—particularly AV1’s—has grown by leaps and bounds. Yet ...
Andrew Gladding is a radio broadcast engineer, interviewer, DJ and music producer. He is chief engineer for Salem Media in New York, which operates WMCA(AM) and WNYM(AM), as well as the chief of ...
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, ...