Upcoming support of the HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding ) codec in macOS High Sierra and iOS 11 will help to improve file efficiency of high quality video files. With an added emphasis on high ...

Now that we've looked at how to playback HEVC-encoded files, it's time to create them. There are a whole collection of tools and utilities that can encode HEVC, but in this article I'm going to focus ...

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 ...

HEIF stands for High Efficiency Image Format. Like JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and PNG, HEIF is a type of image format put forth by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). While much of the current discussion ...

Up until now, iOS devices have captured video in the MPEG-4/H.264 format, and still photos in JPEG. But with iOS 11 (on recent hardware), Apple is breaking with tradition and switching to a new set of ...

If you have an iPhone running iOS 11 (or later) or a Mac running macOS High Sierra (or later), chances are that, at some point in time, you might have come across the HEIF (or HEIC) and HEVC formats ...

Microsoft’s modern Media Player for Windows 11 has received an Insider Preview update, but tests suggest it still uses more ...

We then transcoded the video using H.264 and H.265 encoders in Handbrake 1.0.7, both set for 1000 kbit/sec on an 8-core, keeping file sizes and all other parameters the same. The H.264 video clearly ...

Another notable requirement from the Authoring Specification is that “The container format for HEVC video MUST be fMP4,” or fragmented MP4 files, which means that MPEG-2 transport streams are out.

When Apple releases encoding specifications, most producers (including myself) tend to give them great weight. After all, Apple invented HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), and produces most of the devices ...

When you want to view videos or photos on your Windows 11/10 computer using the inbuilt Photos app Video editor and you receive the error message- You need an ...

Due to the amount of encodes I performed for this article, it's hard to produce every single relevant side-by-side comparison for this section. Instead, I've included what I believe are the most ...