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 ...

The next-generation High Efficiency Video codec (HEVC), H.265, has hit a major public milestone thanks to the work of the developer MultiCoreWare. MCW is launching a new commercial open-source venture ...

NTT-AT has upgraded the H.265/HEVC encoder engine employed by the two products to make it compliant with the 4K “Range Extensions” Profile (*2) (color format (*3) 4:2:2 and 10-bit bit depth (*4)), ...

Changing from Medium to Slower did produce a meaningful quality increase of 6 percent, but came at a cost of extending encoding times by a factor of seven. If you’re already operating at full capacity ...

In the ever-evolving world of technology and video capture and formats, new standards often appear to enhance our digital lives. A good example of this is the high-performance file formats and codecs ...

The HEVC video standard is finished, though extensions will be added through the next 12 months. It promises to halve the bandwidth needed to deliver HD content and could significantly improve ...