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10 Years after Inception, WebRTC Becomes an Official Web Standard
Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) recently became a web standard. This is a major milestone on a long journey for WebRTC that started in 2011 with Google open-sourcing key necessary technologies. The new standard will continue to evolve as the WebRTC Working Group strives to integrate new use cases — live processing of audio and video feeds, Internet of Things use cases, and more.
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New H.266 Video Coding Standard Claims to Be 50% More Efficient Than H.265
Versatile Video Coding, also known as H.266, MPEG-I Part 3, and Future Video Coding (FVC), is the successor to H.265 and promises to reduce data requirements by 50% while keeping the same level of visual quality as its predecessor.
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H.265 Codec Standard Has Been Approved
The H.265 codec standard, the successor of H.264, has been approved, promising support for 8k UHD and lower bandwidth, but the patent issues plaguing H.264 remain.