While Europe has been enveloped in the hysteria of the real-life Mobile World Congress taking place this week, an unassuming conference for the video streaming industry was plugging away in the background, centered on media compression. The Mile-High Video (MHV) 2022 Annual Workshop was not hosted aboard a Boeing 737 as the name might suggest, but at the Colorado Convention Center, where engineers, executives, academics and architects amassed. Given time zone constraints and MWC-related commitments, Faultline only managed a spontaneous trip inside the MHV live stream, which was serendipitously timed as seven vendors were invited on stage, one after the other, to entice members of the audience into leaving the comfort of their seats for private live demos. Staff from…