A recent paper from Friedrich-Alexander University benchmarks energy consumption and compression efficiency for six video codecs across software and hardware decoders. While the study uses VP9 as a ...

NTT Docomo Inc said Monday that it will license a software for decoding HEVC, the new international standard for video coding, in March. Docomo’s HEVC decoding software is the world’s first of its ...

With AV1 hardware decode on mo­bile devices stuck in the mid-to-low teens as of 2025, and with VVC at zero, it’s clear that the race to supplant H.264 and HEVC will be contested with software-only ...