Continuing our video compression theme this week, in the wake of IBC’s curious reluctance to talk about codecs as a fundamental enabling technology of the M&E industry, Faultline stopped for a routine check-in at the V-Nova stand in Amsterdam. Except, of course, there is never anything routine about a catch-up with V-Nova CEO Guido Meardi. Before IBC, we had been trying to work out exactly what V-Nova was doing inside the ambitious and somewhat ambiguous Delta Protocol project conceived by sports streamer DAZN. The London-based compression company was recently named as one of the participants alongside Google, Eluvio and NeoViews, but any exact technical roles have been familiarly vague. Now, we know that V-Nova’s contribution sits underneath the proposition of…