The Video Insiders talk wavelet compression and the progressive expansion of AVC, HEVC, and VVC compression efficiency with one of the industry's foremost codec experts, CEO of FastVDO, Pankaj Topiwala. In this information-rich interview, Pankaj explains the difference between patent-free and royalty-free codecs and shares his opinion on whether consortia developed codecs such as AV1, developed by the AOM group of companies, will be a part of the codec landscape moving forward.