Snap as the Canary: Why Every Streaming Platform Should Be Watching This Trial

Dolby sued Snap in U.S. and Brazil, claiming Snapchat's AV1 and HEVC codec use infringes patents, challenging AV1's long-assumed royalty-free status.
CNET

HEVC, a new weapon in codec wars, to appear in September

The technology, also called H.265 and the successor to H.264, promises to double video quality for better streaming and higher-res TV. But it'll come with a patent burden, too. Stephen Shankland ...
AOL

How to add support for HEIC and HEVC files on Windows 11

If you plan to view pictures and videos from your mobile device on Windows 11, you will probably need to install the HEIF codecs. The High-Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is a container for images ...

Dolby sues Snap over video compression patent claims tied to AV1 and HEVC

In a complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, Dolby accuses Snap of infringing four video compression patents through Snapchat's use ...
GIGAZINE

When comparing and evaluating the 4K era video codecs 'HEVC', 'AV1' and 'VVC', which codec is most promising for the future?

What are “HEVC”, “AV1”, and “VVC”? The most mainstream video codec was MPEG-LA 's H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding). You can find out how AVC compresses movies by reading the following article. How ...
Streaming Media

The State of Streaming Codecs 2026

Streaming codec adoption used to be an engineering abstraction governed by RD curves, BD-rate tables, and roadmap slides that ...