In a world increasingly concerned with sustainability, the energy demands of digital infrastructure are coming under scrutiny—especially in streaming, where encoding and decoding dominate processing ...
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 ...
Meta, Vodafone, and YouTube parent Google have called on smartphone chip designers to support the AV1 video codec in devices to better compress videos and reduce increasing network strain. In a white ...