Apple’s introduction of AV1 aims to improve streaming quality while reducing upfront costs and bandwidth requirements, but its adoption could create a tech gap between big and small players. Success depends on collaboration for an open-source, royalty-free codec, so everyone can benefit from AV1.
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Rethink TV’s Alex Davies Talks New M&E Codecs Market Forecast VIDEO Jan Ozer: I’m here today with Alex Davies, Senior Analyst with Rethink Technology Research, who just issued an updated report, Media and Entertainment Codecs Market Forecast 2023-2030 . We reported on the previous edition of this report back when it came out in 2021. So tell us about this report. Alex Davies: The original report was a big project. This one is a lighter update, based on a similar timeline. We realized that we hadn’t officially updated the timeline for a while. Part of that was building on a bunch of the changes in the video devices forecasts and projections that have taken place since COVID. Jan Ozer: Let’s start with an overview of the timeline chart. Alex Davies: There are two parts to this forecast. The first part is the timeline. You have to start with an idea of what you think the market is going to look like. And part …
Read MoreTable 1 shows the average results for two 10-second test clips when encoding with FFmpeg and libaom-AV1. This tells you that on this test bed, FFmpeg/libaom-AV1 isn’t capable of encoding a live stream; in fact, the best...
Read MoreIn a questionnaire sent to some companies earlier this year and seen by Reuters, the EU watchdog said it was investigating alleged anti-competitive behaviour related to the license terms of AV1 by AOM and its members in Europe....
Read MoreIn a questionnaire sent to some companies earlier this year and seen by Reuters, the EU watchdog said it was investigating alleged anti-competitive behaviour related to the license terms of AV1 by AOM and its members in Europe....
Read MoreAs a member of the Alliance, LG will collaborate with AOMedia members, the leading internet and media technology companies, to advance open standards for media compression and delivery over the web. AV1 delivers a...
Read MoreThis report presents the results of video codecs comparison using objective quality measurement. MSU Video Codecs Comparison 2020 Part 1: FullHD, objective Video Area Home >> Video-Codec Comparisons >> HEVC/AV1 Video...
Read MoreAkamai Image & Video Manager (IVM) already supports key modern image types, such as WebP, JPEG 2000, and JPEG XR, but the imaging industry is always evolving and raising the bar on the balance of compression and quality. In addition, creative and development teams are regularly asking about new formats, and it’s important to understand the leading ones. In this article, we’ll examine two newer[…]
Read MoreLCEVC, also known as MPEG-5 Part 2, last week reached a critical standardisation milestone within MPEG, and the first commercial deployments are expected before the end of the year. It represents formal validation of V-Nova technology, but can it successfully circumvent the ‘codec wars’?
Read MoreWithin 24 months, hardware support appeared, encoding became affordable, and AV1 became a much more realistic competitor to HEVC. Here’s how the currently available AV1 codecs measure up.
Read MoreI’ve spent more than two decades in the streaming industry and the progress that many of us have witnessed, as consumers and professionals, is truly remarkable. Today, Internet-delivered video is pushing traditional broadcasters to upgrade the user-experience as consumers have learned that sometimes, as is the case with 4K, the highest quality video is often […]
Read MoreI’ve spent more than two decades in the streaming industry and the progress that many of us have witnessed, as consumers and professionals, is truly remarkable. Today, Internet-delivered video is pushing traditional broadcasters to upgrade the user-experience as consumers have learned that sometimes, as is the case with 4K, the highest quality video is often […]
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