HEVCAdvance is the second HEVC patent group comprised of GE, Technicolor, Mitsubishi, Philips, and Dolby, which I wrote about in detail for Streaming Media in New HEVC Patent Pool: What Are the Implications? Last week, the group issues a proposed royalty schedule to much negative fanfare. Here’s the schedule for hardware for Region 1, which includes most developed countries. Region …

I’m producing a free webinar with Onstream Media on Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 1:00 PM EST. Here’s the description: While business use of video in webinars and videoconferencing is skyrocketing, few users have had any kind of media training, and subpar audio or video quality can often derail or diminish the desired benefits of the video presentation. Fortunately, in …

Here's a column that talks about the requirement to perform both objective and subjective testing when evaluating different encoding techniques or comparing codecs. Here's the first paragraph. I spend a lot of time assessing video quality, sometimes