Hardware and software support for the royalty-free AV1 video codec has been steadily building over the last couple years. Hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding is becoming standard in more GPUs, ...

Video and audio transcoding is used to convert from one digital format to another in order to share files between devices. This often compresses files, saving storage space or transmission bandwidth.

Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA) today extended its family of high-performance H.264-compliant ICs, announcing a new transcoder designed to compress full high definition (1920 x 1080) MPEG ...