Intel demoed an end-to-end 8K 60fps HDR live stream of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 running entirely on its own hardware. The video was encoded on a server with 112 Xeon cores and 384GB of memory.
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The Khronos Group has released the latest Vulkan specification 1.2.175. Among many of the new changes is the notable addition of the provisional extensions for the upcoming 'Vulkan Video' API.
The next-generations VVC/H.266 codec has been announced as a follow-up to H.265. Like the previous codecs, H.266 promises a significant reduction in size with no apparent quality loss.
