Coming good on what Faultline teased exclusively from NAB 2024, Silicon Valley-based SoC slinger Amlogic—which powers over 100 million streaming sticks, set tops, and smart TVs globally—has confirmed the direct hardware integration of LCEVC (low complexity enhancement video coding), the MPEG-5 Part-2 video compression vitalizer developed by UK-based V-Nova. This will see LCEVC supported directly in hardware for upcoming SoC generations from Amlogic, joining Realtek on that front, which again showcases how LCEVC can be easily supported in software in existing SoC generations. Timing is crucial. Just last week, we updated readers on the situation in Brazil, where the country’s next-generation hybrid digital terrestrial television standard, coined TV 3.0, is approaching the final stages of technical development ahead of its…