In the ever-evolving world of technology and video capture and formats, new standards often appear to enhance our digital lives. A good example of this is the high-performance file formats and codecs ...

You hear a lot about H.264, especially in conjunction with HTML5 video, but are you sure you know what it means? To help you get a basic understanding of this video standard, we spoke to Abhik ...

In PSNR and SSIM testing, I've found 5Mbps 720p video compressed with x264 to be far and away superior to Theora. PSNR differed by 4.2 dB while SSIM of Theora was 0.89 as opposed to H.264's 0.94.

The case for moving from ubiquitous older video codecs like H.264 (AVC) to newer codecs like AV1 or HEVC (H.265) is typically expressed in terms of encoding efficiency that translates to bandwidth and ...