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The Best Bang for the Bit
June 16, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—A panel considered resource allocation for developments in media delivery. Robert Kisor SMPTE past president moderated the panel. Panelists included Anne Aaron from Netflix, Wendy Aylsworth from Warner Bros., Bill Baggelaar, from Sony Pictures Entertainment, Pierre Larbier from Ateme, Paul Haskell from Harmonic, and Matthew…
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AES 4k-8k Audio Panel
October 10. 2014, Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles—A panel of experts from standards organizations and industry considered the issues of matching audio with the emerging 4k and 8k displays. Fred Willard from Univision moderated the panel, and panelists were Skip Pizzi from NAB, Robert Blerdt from Fraunhofer, Jeff Riedmiller from Dolby, Tim Carrol from…
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HEVC and VP9 Acceleration with Mali GPU
October 1, 2014, Arm TechCon, Santa Clara, CA—Mukund Srinivasan from Ittiam described the requirements and results of accelerating the newest codecs on GPUs. The needs for higher compression ratios for video is facing the challenges of compute workloads and CPU capacity. The market is seeing much more video on all devices, but particularly on mobile…
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Open Source H.265 Encoder
November 12, 2013, AMD Developer Summit, San Jose, CA—Steve Borho from MulticoreWare detailed the developments on an H.265/HEVC video encoder project. This open source project will produce an encoder set that will eventually replace the H.264 encoders currently in place. The background for the encoders covers much of the video landscape. In video, quality matters,…
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Big TV – IEEE CE / ComSoc
October 5, 2013, IEEE Communications Society and Consumer Electronics Society, Santa Clara, CA—Peter Symes from SMPTE, the Society for Motion Picture and Television Engineers, talked about the displays and infrastructure beyond HD. The next generation of TV will have brighter and sharper pictures, but the challenge is for the industry to not have another 3-D…
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IBC 2010 – Data Compression – Paul Dempsey
At IBC in Amsterdam, there was a discussion on video compress for digital data broadcast for consumer use of television. This discussion was based on the further conversion of channels from SD to HD and eventually HD3D. There are several compression methods an each has an associated standard and or codec. The discussions indicated that…
