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 ...

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 ...

On April 5, 2016, the Alliance for Open Media announced three new members; AMD, ARM, and NVIDIA, and that the AOMedia Video codec, also called AV1, would be developed as an open source project. As you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

France has consolidated its lead in HEVC deployment with Orange Labs using the codec for live broadcast of the French Open tennis tournament in Paris over the last two weeks. This was part of 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. VideoLAN’s VLC media ...

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, ...