Modern video coding architectures are at the forefront of addressing the increasing demands for efficient data compression, high-resolution broadcasting, and real-time processing in a global ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lossy compression schemes can be based on a source model, as in the case of speech compression, or a user or sink model, as is somewhat the case in image compression. In this chapter we look at audio ...

A new technique for efficient encoding of LDPC codes based on the known concept of Approximate Lower Triangulation (ALT) is introduced. The greedy permutation algorithm is presented to transform ...