Without codecs, you would spend hours downloading large video and audio files Video and audio codecs are a bit different but both work in the same way: They help you grab downloads of music, video, ...

Though a touch dated, the Omdia chart in Figure 1 shows worldwide phone shipments by price point over the designated periods. As you can see, phones costing below $150 are leading the charge. While ...

Vodafone, Meta, and Google have released a study, Video Streaming with the AV1 Video Codec in Mobile Devices, detailing the ...

Samsung Scalable Codec, often known as SSC, is Samsung's proprietary codec that provides high-quality audio streaming over Bluetooth. Samsung revamped its TWS (Total Wireless Stereo) lineup in 2019 ...

“Emerging” codecs like AV1, VP9, and HEVC are hardly newcomers to the streaming scene, and their implementation and breadth of industry support—particularly AV1’s—has grown by leaps and bounds. Yet ...

Samsung plans to improve its smartphone video capture in the Galaxy S26 by introducing its much-anticipated Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec. Unveiled during the company's 2023 developer ...

AV1 was developed by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), which creates open standards for improving online video consumption. It was designed to replace the Google-developed VP9, with the group ...

British-registered mobile operator Vodafone has today published a new white paper with Meta and Google, which shows the ...