British statesman Benjamin Disraeli once remarked that “Change is inevitable.” If I didn’t know better, I would have said he was referring to electronic devices of the 21 st century. As we are so ...

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 ...

The case for H.265, like most new video technologies, is compelling: better compression and faster/cheaper delivery over lower bitrates. For any content distributor seeking to distribute content to ...

I'm working on transcoding our physical DVD library to something more server-based, partly so we can pull the DVDs off the shelf, partly because with a toddler, Plex seems likely to lead to less chaos ...

H.265 is still a work in progress, but VideoRx CTO Robert Reinhardt says there's plenty to get excited about. Speaking at the recent Streaming Media West conference in sunny Huntington Beach, ...

For devices that can decode HEVC video, performance is a concern. As HEVC compresses video streams to a greater extent than H.264, it requires more processing power to decompress; a pretty typical ...

Video is the Internet. The networking giant Cisco estimates it consumed about 70 percent of all online traffic in 2014, and that share will rise to between 80 and 90 percent by 2018. The ...