HEVC, or High-Efficiency Video Coding, is a video compression standard. It is also known as H.265 or MPEG-H Part 2. It is a successor to AVC or H.264 or MPEG-4. HEVC maintains the same video quality ...

UPDATE, Dec. 1: For those who’ve been concerned about viewing or editing the Samsung NX1’s 4K videos on your computer, especially given our troublesome experience playing these HEVC H.265 videos first ...

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265, promises twice the compression possible with Blu-ray’s best video compression methods. But how does it work, and is it enough to get us better ...

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.

Though IR generally caters to photographers and focuses on still cameras, video has become an increasingly important part of the modern visual creators’ repertoire. Those wanting excellent video ...

While few companies of any kind are actually making money from HEVC (H.265) today, the successor to H.264 will become increasingly important during the next 2–3 years, perhaps even earlier in some ...