Video-compression provider On2 Technologies said Tuesday it will release an open-source version of its video-compression technology, or codec. Video codecs are pieces of software that are used to ...

Various streaming services support AV1 playback, while Pixel 10 phones can capture AV1 videos, but AV2 just took a big step ...

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, ...

The AOMedia Video Codec 1.0 (AV1) specification has been finalised and published. After nearly three years of work on this royalty free codec things should start to look up for 4K UHD and higher ...

SheerVideo Pro, a “nondestructive” software video codec for the production and archival of professional video and film, is now available from BitJazz Inc. Designed to replace uncompressed ...

Amsterdam, IBC - (September 9, 2005) - Canopus, leaders in the digital video codec, encoding and production arena, will use IBC to preview the Canopus HQ+ Codec, the third software Codec option in the ...

NTT-AT has upgraded the H.265/HEVC encoder engine employed by the two products to make it compliant with the 4K “Range Extensions” Profile (*2) (color format (*3) 4:2:2 and 10-bit bit depth (*4)), ...

In context: The AV1 video coding format provides an open, royalty-free codec specifically designed for internet video streaming, developed as a successor to Google's VP9. Unlike competing formats like ...

HOUSTON (April 21, 2010) — Meeting the increased demand for advanced video communications at a reasonable cost, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) introduces two new embedded video camera ...

With AV1 hardware decode on mo­bile devices stuck in the mid-to-low teens as of 2025, and with VVC at zero, it’s clear that the race to supplant H.264 and HEVC will be contested with software-only ...

Xbox uses it too. My guess is it's kinda close to divx quality but has a cheaper licensing agreement. I'd find that hard to believe. Only a serious chode would use DivX's stuff these days, and using ...