Android 17 Beta 1 released with H.266/VVC support, camera improvements, and more

Google has just announced the release of Android 17 Beta 1 with performance improvements, H.266/VVC video codec support, smoother camera mode transitions, privacy and security enhancements, and more. The company is not releasing Developer Previews anymore, and instead follows the "continuous Canary channel" announced with the first Android 16 Developer Preview. So, with Android 17, the very first release is the "Beta 1" release. Some of the key changes in Android 17 so far: Developers can't opt out of orientation and resizability restrictions on large screen devices (sw > 600 dp), so they'll have to make sure their apps work on tablets, foldables, and desktop windowing environments. With one exception: apps categorized as games with android:appCategory flag. Google published a separate blog post about the change. Performance improvements and tools Lock-free MessageQueue that will reduce missed frames. Added Generational garbage collection to ART's Concurrent Mark-Compact collector. This aims to reduce

Android 17 Beta 1 released with H.266/VCC support, camera improvements, and more

Google has just announced the release of Android 17 Beta 1 with performance improvements, H.266/VCC video codec support, smoother camera mode transitions, privacy and security enhancements, and more. The company is not releasing Developer Previews anymore, and instead follows the "continuous Canary channel" announced with the first Android 16 Developer Preview. So, with Android 17, the very first release is the "Beta 1" release. Some of the key changes in Android 17 so far: Developers can't opt out of orientation and resizability restrictions on large screen devices (sw > 600 dp), so they'll have to make sure their apps work on tablets, foldables, and desktop windowing environments. With one exception: apps categorized as games with android:appCategory flag. Google published a separate blog post about the change. Performance improvements and tools Lock-free MessageQueue that will reduce missed frames. Added Generational garbage collection to ART's Concurrent Mark-Compact collector. This aims to reduce

AOMedia AV2 open video codec release nears, delivers around 40% bandwidth reduction

The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) will release the AV2 open video codec specification by the end of the year, as an update of the now widely-used AV1 video codec with up to 40% bandwidth reduction at the same level of quality. In the meantime, Debargha Mukherjee, Google Principal Engineer, has shared a progress report about AV2, first offering a historical perspective with the list of digital video codecs from 1990 to 2030 (expected), then stating AV2 goals, and going through requirements, coding tools, and what's been achieved so far. You can check the eleven-minute presentation (04:27 - 15:30) embedded at the end of this post, or continue reading for the highlights of the talk. AV2 will be released very soon, while the H.267 proprietary video codec might only be released around 2030. We haven't seen a lot of support/traction for H.266, so we'll have to see if H.267 ever

Just like with AV1, Intel beats AMD and Nvidia to support H.266 (VVC) decoding

Intel has released its new Xe2 GPU today that is inside the new Lunar Lake processor and with that, it managed to become the first to support VVC video codec, beating out rivals AMD and Nvidia.

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What Is NFC and All You Need to Know About Near Field Communication - GTech Booster

NFC, or Near Field Communication, is a set of communication protocols that allow two electronic devices to communicate with each other over a distance of 4cm or less. This technology operates through inductive coupling, which uses antennas present on both devices to send and receive signals via radio waves.

VVenC 1.8 Released For Speeding Up Open-Source H.266/VVC Encoding

VVenC & VVdeC H.266 open source video encoder and decoder work on x86 and Arm - CNX Software

VVenC and VVdeC are open-source software H.266/VCC video encoder and decoder respectively that are optimized to use SIMD instructions on x86 (SSE42/SIMDe

Open-Source Software Encode/Decode For H.266/VVC Progressing