VP9 support is growing while H.265 support is sparse. Better bandwidth efficiency may be one reason why. Last week we did our Kranky Geek WebRTC Show, which was successful. Google, in its session had ...

The HEVC video standard is finished, though extensions will be added through the next 12 months. It promises to halve the bandwidth needed to deliver HD content and could significantly improve ...

The ITU has approved a new video format that could bring 4k video to future broadband networks, while also making streaming HD video available even on bandwidth-constrained mobile networks. The H.265 ...

The next-generation High Efficiency Video codec (HEVC), H.265, has hit a major public milestone thanks to the work of the developer MultiCoreWare. MCW is launching a new commercial open-source venture ...

More talked about than used, HEVC/H.265 was a popular topic at the recent Streaming Media East conference in New York City. StreamingMedia.com contributor Jan Ozer explained how to produce and deploy ...

Back when the Pixel 4 launched in late October, Google released an update to its camera app. The software update added several features with the most important one being support for H.265/HEVC video.

In the ever-evolving world of technology and video capture and formats, new standards often appear to enhance our digital lives. A good example of this is the high-performance file formats and codecs ...

Google's VP8--a key part of WebRTC--just cleared a major patent hurdle and is poised to take over dominance of Internet codecs. There was a small amount of news last month that didn't get a lot of ...

The next-gen video compression technology shrinks video by 40 to 45 percent compared to today's prevailing H.264. But encoding H.265 video takes a long time right now. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Since I own an iPhone 6, I should have noticed this earlier, but I just learned that Apple is using H.265 in FaceTime on the new models. Note that the unit’s video playback specs don’t mention H.265, ...

When we asked our faithful readers what technological advances had made the biggest difference to their lives, Prospero424 stepped up to the plate to deliver a humdinger: video compression. To ...