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MPEG-5 could unlock UHD

Thierry Fautier, until recently a senior figure at Harmonic and now MD at Your Media Transformation, in a comprehensive paper presented at NAB, said it is about time to change the game on UHD deployment. He especially drew attention to the Brazil TV 3.0 announcement, and its plans to standardise on a UHD VVC together […]

April 24, 2024By Chris Forrester

Allegro DVT, V-Nova collaboration

Allegro DVT and V-Nova have agreed a strategic collaboration to accelerate development of LCEVC and foster adoption of MPEG-5 LCEVC among video SOCs/ASIC vendors. It has just become a lot a lot easier to integrate LCEVC on the video SOCs inside TVs, mobile phones, set-top-boxes or PCs. The two companies will collaborate to address the […]

December 12, 2022By Sanjeev Bhavnani

Videon raises additional $9m

Videon, a specialist in edge computing for video, has raised a further $9 million (€7.9m) bringing total investment in the past seven months to $16.3 million. The funding, led by Alter Venture Partners with participation from Voyager Capital, Fortson VC, Bruce Chizen, and Cercano Management, will drive further innovation in its next-generation video edge computing […]

February 1, 2022

V-Nova, PresenZ launch Steam Store VR ,ovie

V-Nova, a provider of video compression solutions, has announced the release of a movie in the Steam Store showcasing the future of immersive media and metaverse applications. The movie uses V-Nova’s ultra-efficient point-cloud compression technology combined with game-changing 6DoF volumetric movie format from PresenZ, leader in VR technology. PresenZ is a volumetric video format that […]

November 15, 2021

V-Nova closes €33m series C funding

Neva SGR, Intesa Sanpaolo Group’s venture capital firm focused on the tech industry, is placing its bets on the growth of V-Nova, a high-growth company based in London but with Italian roots, operating in the compression of video and image data. Thanks to Neva First, the alternative investment fund managed by Neva SGR, V-Nova has […]

July 26, 2021

V-Nova announce SOUTHWORKS as V-Nova LCEVC Integration Services Partner

V-Nova, a provider of video compression solutions, has announced that SOUTHWORKS, a global software development company, is now a certified integration partner for V-Nova LCEVC. V-Nova engaged SOUTHWORKS to extend its growing list of reference integrations by integrating V-Nova LCEVC decoding in market-leading web players. The integrations produced by SOUTHWORKS, and delivered in just three […]

July 7, 2021

V-Nova LCEVC licensing terms announced for entertainment video services

V-Nova, a provider of video compression solutions has announced licensing terms for V-Nova LCEVC, a software development kit and a wide range of reference integrations that add MPEG-5 Part 2 LCEVC (Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding) ISO/IEC 23094-2 encoding and decoding to any existing video delivery workflow, device or application. The licensing terms have been […]

May 20, 2021

Silverpeak advises on investment in V-Nova

Silverpeak, the technology investment bank, acted as the exclusive financial advisor to V-Nova on its $22m equity financing round. V-Nova is a London-based, IP and software company founded by Guido Meardi, Pierdavide Marcolongo and others. The company’s technology improves data compression as the core enabler of a vast portfolio of innovative applications based on the […]

November 23, 2020

V-Nova completes MPEG-5 LCEVC standard

V-Nova, a provider of video compression solutions, has announced what it describes as “a milestone achievement” in MPEG-5 Part 2 LCEVC (Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding) being promoted to MPEG/ISO final draft international standard. V-Nova co-chaired the standard’s development and contributed to the foundational technology upon which it is built. MPEG-5 Part 2 LCEVC is […]

November 2, 2020

V-Nova and NETINT collaborate

V-Nova, a provider of video compression solutions and NETINT Technologies, an supplier of computational storage and video processing SoC solutions, have announced a collaborative roadmap that accelerates V-Nova LCEVC’s market deployment while further improving the performance of NETINT’s encoding technology. NETINT Technologies launched the Codensity T408 video transcoder platform featuring real-time, high-quality, scalable H.264/H.265 ASIC […]

August 5, 2020