Access Advance LLC and Alibaba Group today announced that Alibaba has joined the Access Advance Video Distribution Patent Pool (VDP Pool) as a Licensee, securing a license to the pool's comprehensive ...

The starting gun has been fired on development of a new video codec beyond VVC with gains of at least 20% up to 50% claimed by R&D lab InterDigital. The target for H.267 is to deliver improved ...

Contributing Editor Jan Ozer recently spoke with Alex Davies, senior analyst at Rethink Technology Research, about Rethink’s new report, “The Media and Entertainment Transcoding Workload and Device ...

BOSTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / March 24, 2026 / Access Advance LLC today announced that Dolby Laboratories Inc., a holder of patents administered through the Access Advance Video Distribution Patent ...

K/8K Multi format IP supporting AV2 decoder WAVE63F1 is a high-performance multi format codec IP including AV2 decoder and AV1, VVC/H.266, HEVC/H.265,AVC/H.264,VP9 built on Chips&Media’s latest video ...

A new tech blog from Netflix highlights the importance of the AV1 open video codec, which now powers about 30% of the platform’s streaming and discusses a variety of opportunities to expand its ...

AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) was invented by a group of technology companies to be an open, royalty-free alternative to other video codecs, like HEVC/H.265. But a lawsuit that Dolby Laboratories Inc. filed ...

Recap: Support for the AV1 codec has grown considerably since its launch in 2018. Large and small platforms quickly adopted the format to minimize bandwidth consumption while preserving image quality.