A secretive 4-year-old project aimed at improving digital video is ready for its close-up. Privately held Pulsent on Monday will take the wraps off a new compression technique that the company claims ...

Compression is one of the most important criteria in determining quality and cost of ownership in a digital video system. Advances in processing power enable more sophisticated compression techniques.

Viewers today are used to high compression ratios and artifacts from wireless and mobile video (H.264/AVC or H.265/HEVC). But there is a threshold where the experience is so poor they stop watching ...

If you are trying to choose a video compression methodology, get ready to be confused. The confusion starts right away with an alphabet soup that includes H.264, MJPEG and MPEG4. Now, wade through the ...

Because video clips are made up of sequences of individual images, or “frames,” video compression algorithms share many concepts and techniques with still-image compression algorithms. Therefore, we ...

When we asked our faithful readers what technological advances had made the biggest difference to their lives, Prospero424 stepped up to the plate to deliver a humdinger: video compression. To ...

A secretive 4-year-old project aimed at improving digital video is ready for its close-up. Privately held Pulsent on Monday will take the wraps off a new compression technique that the company claims ...

You're on a Sunday drive a few years from now, touring through hilly farmland in your self-driving car. As you approach a hill, an impatient motorcyclist foolishly decides to pass, despite the ...

Reality in our industry is all in the presentation of approximations of reality. The essence of video and audio compression is the selective discarding of information that the consumer of the content ...