The inclusion of the HEVC codec is transformational, in the same way that H.264 was a decade ago. Cutting back on the processor demand of coding and decoding HEVC video, Apple is implementing hardware ...

Briefly mentioned during Thursday's GoPro launch event, the new Hero 6 Black with GP1 chip compresses ultra high-resolution video into manageable chunks of data using High Efficiency Video Coding, the ...

Apple's decision to adopt HEVC basically means two things - higher quality video and better compression rates. The HEVC standard enables a video to be compressed into a file that is about half the ...

Major laptop vendors have quietly removed hardware decode support for the H.265/HEVC codec in several business and entry-level models, a decision apparently driven by rising licensing fees. Users ...

You don’t notice good video compression—until it’s not there. For years, people have streamed high-resolution video without thinking about the tech behind it. But when companies clash over which ...

Following this morning's public release of macOS High Sierra, Apple has updated its iMovie for Mac app with support for High Efficiency Video Coding, aka HEVC or H.265. As outlined in our in-depth ...

Are we there yet? Nope, and the general consensus is that we won’t be until there’s a significant installed base of HEVC-accelerated smartphones and tablets. Since neither Apple nor Google has ...

CHENGDU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DearMob’s Windows and Mac media player 5KPlayer just got an update with 64-bit version added to enable faster decoding and smoother playback of 4K, H.264 8K and 10bit ...

It has become a hot topic that Dell and HP are intentionally disabling the H.265 (HEVC) hardware encoder and decoder on some laptops. This has resulted in issues such as video playback issues in ...