The rise of online video has impacted media distribution at unprecedented levels. Providing great video quality is no longer a competitive advantage, but rather a “must have”—and the crux of this lies ...

Live streams will start looking a whole lot nicer soon. YouTube has begun rolling out support for an updated streaming protocol, which when paired with the upcoming OBS Studio 29.1 update, will allow ...

In August 2020, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) developed a software working group to “use the Scalable Video Technology for AV1 (SVT-AV1) encoder developed by Intel ... to create AV1 encoder ...

AV1 is a video codec that’s gaining traction among online streaming services because it’s free of royalties and delivers good video quality without needing a lot of bandwidth. However, many devices ...

Move over H.264/AVC and HEVC, there's a new video streaming codec in town and it's got you in its sites. AV1 is here and it's going to be everywhere before you know it. AV1 is an open, royalty-free ...

Netflix has begun streaming select titles encoded in the new, more efficient AV1 codec to compatible Smart TVs and game consoles. AV1 is the first royalty-free high-efficiency video codec, developed ...

Every move made by Apple has far-reaching implications. The force touch feature may have originated at Apple, but is now found on every device. This is but one example. Recently, Apple announced that ...