Versatile Video Coding News Today

When it comes to mergers and acquisitions in the streaming industry and M&E marketplace in 2023 and an accounting of the years most consequential deals, it makes the most sense to open at the close: Disneys early-November announcement that it would fully subsume Hulu into its empire with a buyout that completed an acquisition initiated in pre-pandemic 2019.

Live Encoder 3.4 aims to transform the way in which broadcasters and OTT content providers distribute live video, streamline workflows and improve the viewing experience

Edge Hill University is launching a new image-processing research project that is intended to improve the quality of the billions of videos sent around the world.

A team of researchers from Edge Hill University's Engineering Department and Sichuan University's College of Electronics and Information Engineering - led

What are the key factors that drive and impede new and emerging codec deployment on premium OTT streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney, and Apple TV+? Streaming Learning Centers Jan Ozer provides a much-needed codec deployment reality check in this clip from his presentation at Streaming Media East 2023.

Polish software engineer Marta Karczewicz, who has been shortlisted for the European Inventor Award 2019, talks to Neil Tyler about her work and contribution to the development of video compression.

Tony Jones of MediaKind discusses the steady adoption rate of Versatile Video Coding (VVC) and its numerous benefits, such as significant cost savings and reduced energy consumption for streaming.

VVC/H.266 offers an up to 50% bit-rate reduction over its predecessor HEVC/H.265 and boasts enhanced capabilities to efficiently transmit ultra-high-definition content, according to InterDigital

With a new optical disc format that can hold 1TB or more per disc, what if we could get even closer to the original film when viewing at home – and is a disc even necessary for that?

Using the VSON approach in an ATSC 3.0 environment.