I’ve just posted a major codec update to my course, Streaming Media 101: Technical Onboarding for Streaming Media Professionals. The update incorporates the latest on H.264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, LCEVC, and VVC, with EVC excluded since it’s made such little progress on productization and royalty status to date (though the MPAI is doing some interesting things). The update totals about …

Super-resolution techniques scale low-resolution videos to higher resolutions at high quality, and any video publisher with older, low-resolution footage should be aware of them. This article provides an overview of what super-resolution is, how it works, where to get it, and its limitations.  Introduction to Super-Resolution As stated, super-resolution describes techniques used to scale lower resolutions to higher resolutions at …

In a recent interview, I spoke with Rob Ashton, a software developer from id3as, about their product Norsk Studio – a no-code interface built using the Norsk SDK. Here’s a summary of our conversation and a link to the video interview, and several excerpts. Video 1. Here’s the complete interview.  Norsk Overview Rob began by explaining that Norsk Studio serves …