Codecs – Display Daily

How Rambus is Driving MIPI Performance for Mobil Displays

by Omid Rahmat

The continuing expansion of display performance requirements in mobile applications demands that a hybrid of software and hardware solutions come together to address the bandwidth requirements. Rambus is offering a platform to get to …

Links – Week Ending 16th December 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the later part of this week. ViewSonic LS610HDH: LED projector with 4000 lumens …

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Supports 8K60p AV1 Decoding

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Qualcomm has announced its latest APU, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 which adds hardware support for decoding AV1 video at 8K60fps with HDR support for HDR10+, HDR10, HLG and Dolby Vision. (Qualcomm is adding …

IBC 2022 Round-Up – Codecs and Broadcast

by Bob Raikes

As well as our dash around the monitor and virtual production topics at IBC, we stopped in with a small number of other exhibitors that have in the past shown interesting technology developments. The …

Tags:Codecs| DVB| EBU| IBC 2022| LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Light Field Displays| NHK| UltraHD (4KTV)| UltraHD Alliance

Real-time VVC/H.266 UHD Encoder Announced by Spin Digital

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Spin Digital said that it has a new real time encoder for 4K and 8K streaming for the VVC/H.266 codec. The VVC codec is able to compress to lower bitrates than …

Tags:Broadcast| Codecs| Intel| Streaming Video

Links Week Ending 5th August 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the end of this week. Philips launches 2022 LCD TVs with Android 11, …

AVS3 added to DVB’s codec toolkit – EU Looks at AOM (AV1)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DVB has added the Chinese AVS3 codec to its core specifications. The codec is said to be optimised for 8K and the DVB-AVC includes 8K conformance points as well as HFR …

Tags:AV1 Codec| Codecs| DVB| Monopolies (Anti Trust)

Bringing Greater Reality to VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers at Stanford University have published a paper describing how it used a client (VR headset)/server system that fed details on the user’s gaze to the server to allow frame-based foveated …

Tags:Codecs| Foveated Rendering| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| Video Encoders & Decoders

Links Week Mid-Week Week Ending 6th May 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the middle part of this week. Market and finance results from Q1 …

intoPIX Introduces the New “TicoXS FIP” for 4K & 8K AVoIP & WiFi-6

by Artem Alekseenko

intoPIX, leading expert in video compression for ProAV, has recently extended its large range of JPEG XS codecs with the addition of the Flawless Imaging Profile (FIP) in its revolutionary “TicoXS FIP” Codec. “ProAV …

Tags:Codecs| JPEG| Pro AV| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Wi-Fi

Links Week Ending 22nd April 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Amazon is quietly developing a ‘new-to-world’ …

Live Production 8K Video is Down to 48 Mbps With 40 Mbps Already in Spin Digital’s Sights

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 8K Association has, understandably, digging into the required bandwidth needed to transmit high quality (Estimating the Bitrate for 8K Videos When Encoding with HEVC and AV1). The Association has moved …

Tags:Codecs| Super Hi-Vision (8K)