How cutting-edge codecs and obsessive tweaks have helped Netflix to stay ahead of the curve — until now. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics ...

Maya Angelou once said, "You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been," and so it is with per-title encoding. What began as a one-dimensional data rate adjustment that ...

Meta Platforms Inc. today detailed an internally developed computing method that makes it possible to process some types of video content up to 94% more efficiently than before. According to the ...

Over the past few months, Netflix has dared some of its employees in its Los Gatos offices with a special kind of challenge: Two TVs mounted side-by-side were playing the same TV show episode. One was ...

Java 8 will be remembered mainly for introducing lambdas, streams, a new date/time model, and the Nashorn JavaScript engine to Java. Some will also remember Java 8 for introducing various small but ...

Learn more about codecs and optimization at Streaming Media's next event. Read the complete transcript of this clip: Anne Aaron: The goal of our team is to encode Jessica Jones at the best quality ...

In wireless communication, G stands for “generation” as in 4G, 5G, 6G. When it comes to data rate in optical communications though, “G” stands for gigabits per second (Gbps), and the progression ...