Because video clips are made up of sequences of individual images, or “frames,” video compression algorithms share many concepts and techniques with still-image compression algorithms. Therefore, we ...

Reducing the resolution of a video can significantly decrease its file size. Most smartphones allow users to adjust the ...

Imagine this: you’ve just finished editing a stunning video—crisp visuals, perfect transitions, and a soundtrack that ties it all together. But when you try to share it, your email client refuses to ...

[Ottverse] has an interesting series in progress to demystify video compression. The latest installment promises to explain discrete cosine transforms as though you were five years old. We’ll be ...

This article assumes a basic understanding of video compression algorithms. For an introduction to video coders, see How video compression works. Announced in the fall of 2008, On2 Technologies' 8 th ...

Video files are notorious for hogging storage and stalling uploads. Whether you’re trying to attach a project to an email, free up space on your PC, or prep a video for online sharing, you’ve likely ...

To wrap up our recent series of articles on VESA video compression codecs, this month we will look at the use of video compression on digital display interfaces, using the DisplayPort 1.4 standard as ...

H.264 is the latest official video compression standard, which follows from the highly successful MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video standards and offers improvements in both video quality and compression. The ...

Your iPhone's video camera can accomplish a lot, and take some pretty decent shots to boot, but quality video comes at a cost: File size. And the larger the file size, the more complicated your videos ...

Anyone who was lucky enough to secure a Gmail invite back in early 2004 would have gasped in wonder at the storage on offer, a whole gigabyte! Nearly two decades later there’s more storage to be had ...