NMOS and Ember+ both provide engineers with smarter and more flexible IP networks and also increase network security.

We asked a sampling of industry engineers and users for their perspectives on the evolution of codec designs and applications ...

The makers of the AV1 video format have started the Open Audio Codec.

Welcome to your codec update for 2023. I’m here to help you decide whether it’s time to go all in on AV1, VVC, LCEVC, or EVC or whether it’s better to stick with H.264, VP9, and HEVC. As an overview, ...

Smartphone manufacturers all but took away our beloved phones with headphone jacks. Now we’re left buying admittedly great wireless earbuds hand over fist. But listening to music is no longer a ...

It’s been 3-plus years since the MPEG codec explosion that brought us VVC, LCEVC, and EVC. Rather than breathlessly trumpet every single-digit quality improvement or design win, I’ll quickly get you ...

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, ...

Previous iterations of the codec narrative have produced predictable outcomes with incremental efficiency gains, gradual deployment, and long-tail coexistence with previous standards. The same is ...