According to multiple studies, HEVC should deliver up to 50% better compression than H.264 in video on demand (VOD) applications, which means similar quality at half the bitrate. In live encoding, ...

Let’s break this down. Smartphone cameras have near completely replaced the Point & Shoot camera market, and are increasingly capable of taking stunning images and video. As we improve video, it takes ...

I gathered much of the information presented below from WWDC Session 504, "Advances in HTTP Live Streaming," by Roger Pantos, the original author of the HLS specification, and Anil Katti, both AV ...

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 ...

Apple's decision to adopt HEVC basically means two things - higher quality video and better compression rates. The HEVC standard enables a video to be compressed into a file that is about half the ...

HEIF stands for High Efficiency Image Format. Like JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and PNG, HEIF is a type of image format put forth by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). While much of the current discussion ...

If you have ever fiddled around with the camera settings on your smartphone, you must have come across a new video recording codec (file format) called HEVC or High Efficiency. Some smartphones also ...

DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and online videos all share the same beneficial technology: a codec. Codecs compress videos into smaller packages, making it easier to send and receive the video on physical or ...

Up until now, iOS devices have captured video in the MPEG-4/H.264 format, and still photos in JPEG. But with iOS 11 (on recent hardware), Apple is breaking with tradition and switching to a new set of ...

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