BOSTON, MA AND SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESS Newswire / December 15, 2025 / Access Advance LLC and Via Licensing Alliance announced today Access Advance's acquisition of Via's HEVC/VVC program, a move ...

A new tech blog from Netflix highlights the importance of the AV1 open video codec, which now powers about 30% of the platform’s streaming and discusses a variety of opportunities to expand its ...

HP and Dell has disabled support for the High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard in some of their laptops, Ars Technica reports. HEVC is a codec that enables the compression of large videos into ...

Some Dell and HP laptop owners have been befuddled by their machines’ inability to play HEVC/H.265 content in web browsers, despite their machines’ processors having integrated decoding support.

BOSTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / October 14, 2025 / Access Advance LLC today announced that certain patent owners in the HEVC Advance and Video Distribution Patent Pools have filed patent infringement ...

What’s the first thing you do when you start a fresh Windows install? For myself and many others, it’s installing Chrome (usually using Ninite). I throw Brave and Firefox on there after, but Chrome ...

What happens when a trusted tech brand makes a decision that fundamentally alters how its products are used? For Synology, the answer is unfolding in real-time, as its recent move to eliminate ...

In a nutshell: Streaming and other demanding video applications are growing rapidly, and existing codecs are struggling to keep pace. Fortunately, AOMedia has pledged to finalize a new generation of ...

If you see a black screen while playing a video on Windows 11/10, we suggest you use the following fixes to resolve the problem. First of all, make sure that your system is not missing the important ...

What would we do without the web browser? For most of us, it’s our gateway to the digital world. But browsers are such a familiar tool today that we’re in danger of giving them a free ride. In fact, ...

HEVC and HEIF are codecs that use similar compression techniques to improve video and image quality across a variety of devices. If you can't open these files, here's how you can install support for ...