Regarding the new video codec specification "H.265 / HEVC" that can process movies of the same image quality with half the amount of data compared to conventional H.264Past ArticlesHowever, in order ...

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also called H.265, is the next step for MPEG video coding. It currently exists in the form of a preliminary draft standard finished in February and is expected to ...

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Now that we've looked at how to playback HEVC-encoded files, it's time to create them. There are a whole collection of tools and utilities that can encode HEVC, but in this article I'm going to focus ...

While HEVC is a hot topic, far too many people are getting caught up in non-real-world use cases such as 4K, or think HEVC is going to be adopted in short order. In reality, the mainstream market is ...

The tussle over costs associated with video streaming bandwidth is becoming ridiculous. Netflix is crying extortion, because the big ISPs began allegedly throttling Netflix download speeds mere weeks ...

Jeff's favorite screen cleaning cloth that polishes to a shine. Today H.265 enjoys widespread use on Apple devices like the iPhone, as it’s the default codec used by video capture within the stock ...

Much talk at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, earlier this month — both yea and nay — was over the content delivery problems with Ultra HD, aka Ultra High-Definition video. It's the ...

Let's take a look at how the various encodes perform. Throughout the following section, all encodes were made using Handbrake with the settings as mentioned, with the exception of the Nvidia encodes, ...

Video compression is essential for home entertainment. Without it, we'd be stuck in a world with just a few dozen TV channels. Since digital was first introduced in the UK, we've had compressed TV - ...