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V-Nova Impresses at NAB

by Chris Chinnock

It seems as though every quarter a new company emerges with a codec that offers advancement that the industry ‘must adopt’. Some get adopted but many do not. V-Nova and their Perseus video codec …

Informitv Confirms Perseus as Visually Lossless

by Tom Allen

Informitv has conducted an independent test of V-Nova’s Perseus codec. The results confirm that Perseus can be used for visually lossless UltraHD video, as well as supporting HDR and 8k video. HD and UltraHD …

AOMedia Video Becomes Open Source

by Tom Allen

New members have joined the Alliance for Open Media (Leading Companies Collaborate to Avoid Codec Fees), which has also announced availability of code for its AOMedia Video project. ARM, AMD and Nvidia are the …

Beamr Acquires Vanguard

by Tom Allen

Israeli company Beamr, a specialist in video compression whom we have reported on before, has announced that it is acquiring California-based Vanguard Video. Vanguard is a supplier of H.264 and HEVC codec technologies. Beamr’s …

Tags:Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Vol 23 - Issue 12

CeBIT Round Up

by Bob Raikes

Huawei was keen to make an impression and had a big booth highlighting its capabilities in communications. We spotted a demonstration of an ip camera that supports the H.265 codec that was running 1080P …

Perseus SDK Now Available

by Tom Allen

V-Nova has launched its Perseus compression technology (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements) as an SDK. With this move, Perseus can be built into third-party encoders and video players. Perseus can be deployed on …

Tags:Codecs| Large Display Monitor| Software| V-Nova| Vol 23 - Issue 10

Ateme’s HE-MPEG2 Enables Mux Density Increase

by Tom Allen

Ateme, following work with ATSC groups, cable operators and others, has introduced a High Efficiency MPEG 2 (HE-MPEG2) codec. The new codec is compatible with MPEG2-compliant decoders, including legacy STBs. The system enables ATSC …

Are we at a Codec Inflection Point?

by Tom Allen

The topic of codecs keeps coming up in the video industry. Not only are new formats like UltraHD and VR demanding ever-higher levels of efficiency, but booming levels of internet video herald a surge …

Tags:Codecs| Google| HEVC (H.265)| Vol 23 - Issue 08| VP9

V-Nova Wins First DC Innovator Award

by Tom Allen

V-Nova, creator of the Perseus codec, is to be named the first ‘DC Global Media Innovator’ by the Diplomatic Council – a think tank accredited by the UN. The award recognises a media, technology …

Allegro Ensures SHVC Compliance

by Tom Allen

Allegro DVT has launched HEVC Scalability Extension (SHVC) test suites. These will help manufacturers developing SHVC-compliant decoders to validate their SHVC conformance. The suites use the HEVC Scalable Main 10 Profile, and comprise multiple …

Tags:Codecs| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 02

HEVC Advance Lowers Royalty Rates

by Milos Pavlovic

HEVC Advance CEO, Peter Moller, said, “We are…confident that the revised pricing structure and rates balance the needs of both HEVC users and patent owners”.HEVC Advance – one of the licensing bodies for the …

Netflix Opts for ‘Per-Title’ Encoding to Save Bitrates

by Tom Allen

Netflix has announced a new system of compression called ‘per-title encoding’. This is not a new codec – the company will continue to use H.264 – but a new way of looking at different …