What are “HEVC”, “AV1”, and “VVC”? The most mainstream video codec was MPEG-LA 's H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding). You can find out how AVC compresses movies by reading the following article. How ...
Access Advance LLC, the leading HEVC patent pool administrator, today announced a significant expansion of the HEVC Advance Patent Pool, with 28 companies executing licenses in the first half of 2026.
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 ...
BOSTON, November 18, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Access Advance LLC, an independent licensing administrator for leading video codec patent pools, today announced that Xiaomi has joined the HEVC Advance ...
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. Stephen Shankland ...
You don’t notice good video compression—until it’s not there. For years, people have streamed high-resolution video without thinking about the tech behind it. But when companies clash over which ...
Video distribution has grown into a huge ecosystem, so it is only natural that new video formats arise and that companies have a variety of reasons to launch new standards. MPEG, in particular when ...
Video is the Internet. The networking giant Cisco estimates it consumed about 70 percent of all online traffic in 2014, and that share will rise to between 80 and 90 percent by 2018. The ...