You've never heard of FFmpeg, but it powers Netflix, YouTube, and Discord.

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 ...

Matrox Video said it will showcase a suite of interoperable IP technologies and software-defined production tools at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam, Sept. 11-14, marking the company’s 50th anniversary and ...

A recent paper from Friedrich-Alexander University benchmarks energy consumption and compression efficiency for six video codecs across software and hardware decoders. While the study uses VP9 as a ...

Intel’s open-source Linux graphics stack has taken another step forward with hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding through Vulkan Video. New code merged for Mesa’s ANV Vulkan driver enables the ...

The latest update features new media workloads for audio and video encoding, decoding, and processing. Primate Labs has officially released its ...

AJA Video Systems has entered an agreement to acquire live vide encoding and processing software provider, Comprimato. Unifying both development teams behind AJA’s BRIDGE LIVE range of IP streaming ...

Tech’s biggest players are all in on AV1, but competing codecs and technical limitations might be holding it back. Tech’s biggest players are all in on AV1, but competing codecs and technical ...

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 ...