The most significant finding from Netflix’s large-scale codec comparison earlier this week is that, according to Netflix’s VMAF quality benchmark, HEVC was about 20% more efficient than VP9 at 360p, ...

This week, Telestream announced the availability of an open source H.265 (HEVC) encoder, co-founded and managed by MulticoreWare Inc. I had a chance to speak with Telestream CTO Shawn Carnahan about ...

Thanks to today’s ultra high definition video and increasing complex demands for video editing, a new video format has risen to the throne, called H.265. This format, popularized by x265 and other ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IN2CORE licenses MulticoreWare’s x265 in developing modules for their QTAKE software application. QTAKE was launched in 2009 & has become an industry-standard tool ...

We always enjoy seeing products emerge from Taiwan's Sparkle Computer Company as they tend to be a little different from the rest. Earlier this month at COMPUTEX it lived up to that reputation by ...

I have an i7 8700K that I've been using for x265 encoding in handbrake recently. I'm a little surprised to find how slow it is, 20-50% of real-time depending on what I'm doing. I tried doing the ...

Netflix released new details of its own streaming tests recently -- including a huge effort to determine whether x265 (HEVC), VP9, or x264 should be used for future projects. Share on Facebook (opens ...

I discovered something interesting in the video encoding app Handbrake today. When you encode a video, you can select between several encode options. The most obvious choices are H.264 and H.265. The ...