Google's plan to open-source the VP8 video codec it acquired when it purchased a company called On2 hasn't exactly been a secret, and the company's finally made it official today as part of a new ...

Protocom has chosen to hard-wire the video and ADPCM (adaptive-differential pulse-code-modulation) audio-encoding capabilities of its $19 (100,000) GoldenReel PR828 device, along with the incremental ...

Tidal was in the high-resolution music streaming game long before such newcomers as Amazon and Apple, and its format of choice has historically been MQA, a lossy but incredibly efficient high-res ...

Socionext announced the release of a single-chip Multi-format Codec IC capable of encoding, decoding, and transcoding of HEVC/H.265, AVC/H.264 and MPEG2 video and audio, the MB86M30. Socionext first ...

As quality lost at the beginning of a production chain can never be recovered, end users should always opt for the best possible codec, says Ron Veel from Grassvalley. When we talk about cameras in ...