Bandwidth has a knack for being late to the party. Back when the internet was still a research project at the Department of Defense, we needed floppy disks to make file sharing a reality between ...

If it weren’t for the requirement that HDTV be a terrestrial service that would fit in a 6MHz channel, the transition to digital may never have begun. Early analog augmentation channel NTSC compatible ...

Digital video compression/decompression algorithms (codecs) are at the heart of many modern video products, from DVD players to multimedia jukeboxes to video-capable ...

Video fills the internet. Some 75% of all traffic is video content, and this volume is expected to grow three times over by 2021. If we don’t want the insatiable demand for cat videos and streaming ...

Chri Besenbruch, CEO of Deep Render, sees many problems with the way video compression standards are developed today. He thinks they aren’t advancing quickly enough, bemoans the fact that they’re ...

The MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards are now at a relatively mature stage. At the same time, new implementations of MPEG-4 are still on the rise, especially using H.264/AVC. Both ATSC and DVB-T support ...

Digital video coding integrates algorithmic techniques and standardised frameworks to reduce the volume of raw pixel data while preserving perceived visual quality. Most contemporary systems employ a ...

There are a thousand reasons to hate hopping on a video call every 10 minutes to chat with your co-workers, among them the ugly video compression artifacts that can occasionally make your face ...

H.264 is the latest official video compression standard, which follows from the highly successful MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video standards and offers improvements in both video quality and compression. The ...

"Optimization demands understanding hardware constraints at the silicon level," reflects Shaibujan Thankappan Kamalamma, whose career spans video codec work, streaming systems, and enterprise security ...

The Apple acquisition of WaveOne gives the conglomerate similar capabilities, though the kind of services it builds on top of its AI-driven video compression remains unknown. Nevertheless, the move ...