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 ...

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 ...

Streaming platforms and video services have long relied on open-source codecs like x264, x265, SVT-AV1, libaom, and libvp9, all readily available in FFmpeg. For many users, these codecs offer ...

What are some of the key advantages of proprietary versus open-source codecs? There are many factors that come into play that are primarily based on finding the right balance of customer needs in ...

As I wrote about earlier, there has been a horse race going on about which video codecs will be supported by HTML5. With the stakes so high, the race is starting to get a bit rougher. Now it is ...

Back in February of 2020, Netflix began streaming AV1 feeds to the Android mobile app, which brings with it some notable benefits. Now Netflix says plans on extending AV1 streaming to include a bunch ...

Mozilla is edging closer to releasing a new version of Firefox that could increase the use of open-source video software. Mozilla is edging closer to releasing a new version of Firefox that could ...

Firefox 3.1 will likely include support for a new HTML tag specifically for embedding video in Web pages Mozilla is edging closer to releasing a new version of Firefox that could increase the use of ...

We are currently looking at xvid (open source video codec) as an add-on to our product. I have read the GNU GPL and see that if we use any GPL software we must make the source for that software ...

Google engineers have volunteered the company’s VP8 video codec for an emerging standards project, called WebRTC, that could provide a real time communications protocol for the Web. “We believe that ...

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, ...