Online video playback is no longer just about uploading a file and making it play. Today, viewers expect smooth streamin ...

Could pure AI encoding reinvent compression and make traditional codecs obsolete? Monica Heck examines what the future might ...

FFmpeg 8.1 (codename: Hoare), the 8.1st version of the open-source multimedia framework FFmpeg, was released as a stable version on March 16, 2026. This release follows version 8.0, which was released ...

Abstract: The field of approximate computing has received significant attention from the research community in the past few years, especially in the context of various signal processing applications.

Through the looking glass: Nearly three decades after its US patent date, the MP3 is no longer the cutting edge of audio compression. Yet support for it remains ubiquitous in media players, browsers, ...

Abstract: A 22.2 multichannel (22.2 ch) sound system has been adopted as an audio system for 8K Super Hi-Vision (8K). The 22.2 ch sound system is an advanced sound system composed of 24 channels three ...

Let's face it: Until ChatGPT launched, fully formed and instantly useful machine learning and artificial intelligence were buzzwords we almost snickered at, as if their inclusion on a spec sheet was ...

FFmpeg hardware video offloading test commands to validate hardware encoding offloading is working. Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression ...

The web video streaming market has experienced exponential growth, with market size predicted to increase by more than USD 300 billion in the coming years.[i],[ii] The rise of online video platforms ...

Encoding is the process of converting data from one format to another, usually from human-readable text to computer-readable binary code. This process plays a crucial role in the transfer and storage ...