Despite the unbridled enthusiasm among bloggers for Google's newly announced free WebM codec, a digital video expert has reviewed the new VP8 specification and delivered a severely deflating technical ...

Let’s begin with how to evaluate the evaluation. I start by identifying the evaluator and its affiliations, giving more credibility to actual users of the technology, like Netflix or Facebook, than to ...

Netflix released new details of its own streaming tests recently -- including a huge effort to determine whether x265 (HEVC), VP9, or x264 should be used for future projects. Share on Facebook (opens ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Testing by Facebook engineers found that the Alliance for Open Media's new video codec, AV1, outperforms widely-used standards ...