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Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

While 2018 was the year AV1 became known, 2020 will be the year that AV1 became interesting, primarily because of three developments. First, in early 2020, AV1-enabled smart TVs hit the market, right ...

Every year the Moscow State University (MSU) Graphics and Media Lab releases multiple codec comparisons that are essential reading for any company that delivers streaming video to its viewers. This ...

Developers Ronald Bultje, David Conrad, and Jason Garret-Glaser are creating a native VP8 video codec implementation for the open source FFmpeg project. The aim of this effort is to bring first-class ...

Version 8.0 'Huffman' of the multimedia framework FFmpeg was released on August 22, 2025. This version adds the Whisper filter, an open-source AI speech recognition model, enabling automatic speech ...