I discovered something interesting in the video encoding app Handbrake today. When you encode a video, you can select between several encode options. The most obvious choices are H.264 and H.265. The ...

In this paper, we introduce the world’s first 8K 120-Hz video real-time encoder and decoder that complies with ARIB STD-B32 1) . We evaluated the coding efficiency and demonstrated that 8K 120-Hz ...

The impact of H.264 on the world of digital video compression is growing. Companies such as Apple are already switching wholeheartedly to it. As part of the MPEG-4 standard (part 10), H.264 is now a ...

Abstract: The increasing demand for high-quality and low-cost video streaming services calls for the prediction of video encoding complexity. The prior prediction of video encoding complexity ...

Editor’s Note: This article was rewritten to incorporate answers posed in the original article and answered by David Ronca, Director, Encoding Technology at Netflix, and Anne Aaron, Manager, Video ...

Before I started editing Streaming Media, I wrote for a magazine called EMedia, which covered the optical disc industry. That magazine is long gone, but one of the central points of its coverage ...

Abstract: Light field (LF) videos contain rich spatial, angular, and temporal information, resulting in immense data volumes and posing significant challenges for low-bitrate compression. Existing LF ...

Apple's T2 chip in the Mac mini, MacBook Pro, and iMac Pro can greatly speed video encoding, but by how much? Now that Apple has two machines with the same CPU, one with the T2, and one without, there ...