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 ...

Few could argue that MPEG-2 has not been a workhorse of professional media compression. Created in 1988, it helped to power the commercial success of DVD disc players and is still used daily by U.S.

A common designation for the H.264 video standard, which uses a family of compression techniques titled Advanced Video Coding (AVC). Also called "H.264/MPEG-4," "H.264/MPEG-4 AVC" and "MPEG-4/AVC." ...

H.264 is the latest official video compression standard, which follows from the highly successful MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video standards and offers improvements in both video quality and compression. The ...

Canonical is listed as a licensee of H.264 from MPEG LA, the patent pool which licenses out the codec patents, but does this mean that Ubuntu users are covered by this license? The confusing answer is ...

The battle for the future of Web video has been nothing if not confusing, and it isn’t over yet. MPEG LA, the industry group responsible for various audio and video formats, announced that it’ll keep ...

Despite its promise of improved coding efficiency over existingstandards, H.264/AVC still presentsengineering challenges. It incorporates the most significant changes andalgorithmic discontinuities in ...

I'm working on transcoding our physical DVD library to something more server-based, partly so we can pull the DVDs off the shelf, partly because with a toddler, Plex seems likely to lead to less chaos ...

Socionext introduces its H.264 full HD multi channel codec, the SC2M15. The SC2M15 is a H.264/AVC, audio and sytem decoding, transcoding and encoding on a single chip. It has an easy to use command ...

Kane Computing and ATEME SA, have announced the release of the new VSIP2 EXTREME H.264 encoder supporting an extended temperature range. VSIP2 EXTREME can meet the demanding requirements of system ...