Media and Formats Standards

The video codec released by the Alliance for Open Media in 2018, blending Google VP10, Mozilla Daala and Cisco Thor research. It...

The Sony and Philips specification for audio compact discs, issued as the Red Book in 1980 and later published as IEC 60908. It...

The Digital Video Broadcasting project standard for terrestrial digital television, first published in 1997 and launched in the...

The video compression landmark developed jointly by the ITU and ISO MPEG committees. H.264 roughly halved bitrate needs versus...

High Efficiency Video Coding compresses another 40 to 50 percent beyond H.264, making 4K streaming practical. Its complicated...

The image compression standard from the Joint Photographic Experts Group, using discrete cosine transform to shrink photos by ten...

Musical Instrument Digital Interface, agreed in 1983 through a proposal by Dave Smith and Ikutaro Kakehashi, lets synthesizers...

The first major MIDI upgrade since 1983, announced in January 2020 by the MIDI Association. Universal MIDI Packets carry 32 bit...

MPEG 1 Audio Layer III, standardized in ISO/IEC 11172-3 from research led by Karlheinz Brandenburg at Fraunhofer. It made digital...

The United States analog television system, first standardized by the National Television System Committee in 1941 with 525...

The audio codec standardized in RFC 6716, merging Xiph CELT and Skype SILK technology. It adapts from low bitrate speech to...

Phase Alternating Line, developed by Walter Bruch at Telefunken and patented in 1962, improved on NTSC color stability using 625...

ITU-R Recommendation BT.709 fixed high definition television at 16:9 with 1080 lines and a specific set of primaries and gamma...

The hours, minutes, seconds and frames labeling adopted by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers to synchronize...

The color space Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft proposed in 1996 and IEC standardized in 1999 as IEC 61966-2-1. It defines...