If you have an iPhone running iOS 11 (or later) or a Mac running macOS High Sierra (or later), chances are that, at some point in time, you might have come across the HEIF (or HEIC) and HEVC formats ...

Canon, through its technological capabilities, has contributed to the standardisation, completed on 4 April, of range extensions for the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard by the Joint ...

If you haven’t already experienced abbreviation overload, Apple has added two more to your plate: HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) and HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format — yes, it’s short one ...

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 ...

With VLC 2.1.1, VideoLAN continues to sidestep the software patent licensing minefield of video compression. Meanwhile, open-source allies put muscle behind the new Daala codec. VideoLAN’s VLC media ...

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 ...

HEVC Advance is the second HEVC patent group, representing the patents of GE, Dolby, Philips, Mitsubishi, and Technicolor. The group launched in April 2015, and announced terms on July 21. In this ...

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, ...

Netflix can now deliver 4K video through Google Chrome on Windows, removing a long-standing reason to switch to Microsoft Edge. However, the browser update alone does not guarantee Ultra HD playback.