Codec

IETF begins work on the standardization of the next-generation Daala codec, which will now be called NETVC.

Fraunhofer, a German research company, announced an audio codec for high-quality fullband voice calls.

Last month, the HEVC/H.265 standard was officially published. We recently got our hands on a pre-alpha build of x265, an HEVC encoder project from a company called MulticoreWare that's going to be licensed in much the same way as the famed x264 library.