Codecs

Every minute, over 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube alone. Streaming quality is moving from HD to 4K to 8K. AR and VR content is no longer experimental. The challenge isn't storage. It's bandwidth and every generation of codecs has had to answer that...

Imagine that you recently started a job, and your first onboarding task is to watch an introduction video from HR. You download the video file to your computer: newonboardintro.mp4. You double-click the file and sit back to watch. But nothing happens. You click it...