H.264 is a very cool compression standard indeed, and intimately familiar to most Mac users as Apple’s own codec of choice for iTunes, Quicktime and the iPod. It’s also the codec driving YouTube and ...
The MPEG Licensing Authority has announced that it will indefinitely extend royalty-free Internet broadcasting licensing of its H.264 video codec to end users, erasing a key advantage of Google's WebM ...
What? Microsoft and Apple seeing almost eye-to-eye on something? Yes…it’s true and concerns a bit of a hot topic on the Web at the mo: Video standards. After Jobs‘ Adobe take-down, MS has said it’ll ...
Some think license terms for the popular video encoding technology mean Apple's Final Cut Pro should be called Final Cut Hobbyist. Not so fast. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...
The case for moving from ubiquitous older video codecs like H.264 (AVC) to newer codecs like AV1 or HEVC (H.265) is typically expressed in terms of encoding efficiency that translates to bandwidth and ...
It's already been announced that Microsoft will be supporting HTML5 video in Internet Explorer 9. Now the company has confirmed that the codec it will be supporting is H.264. That's bad news for ...
LAS VEGAS Jan 06, 2005 — Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor solutions enabling broadband communications, today announced a reference design ...
One almost-universal truism in the world of streaming media is that licensing particular technologies can be a confusing and somewhat byzantine process. MPEG-4 and H.264 licensing, in particular, have ...
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2006--Media Excel, Inc., announced today the immediate availability of their SoftStream(R) HERA 3000 system - an affordable real-time H.264 video transcoding ...