Rate-distortion optimisation (RDO) lies at the heart of modern hybrid video coding standards such as H.264/AVC, HEVC and VVC. By employing a Lagrangian cost function, RDO seeks the optimal balance ...

Several of EDN 's recent multimedia articles have pointed out the bloated sizes of high-fidelity audio files and the consequent appeal of compressing them in lossless or lossy ways for storage and ...

Update 6:00PM - Here’s what fake HD video looks like. Last week at CES, Comcast announced their "HD" video on demand download service over its future DOCSIS 3.0 that allows 4 minute downloads of ...

Today’s media landscape is radically more diverse than just a few years ago. The delivery of consistently acceptable image and sound quality is taken for granted by viewers, despite uncertain or ...