H.264/MPEG-4 AVC/MPEG-4 AVC, one of the video compression standards MPEG-4, is a video compression codec that aims for 'high image quality even at low bit rates'. Since its introduction in 2003, H.264 ...

MPEG LA has announced plans to extend the duration of no-cost h264 licensing for free Internet video until 2016. This move lifts some of the immediate ambiguity about h264 licensing and will allow the ...

The MPEG Licensing Authority has indefinitely extended the royalty-free Internet broadcasting licensing of its H.264 video codec to end users. The move erases a key advantage of Google’s WebM rival ...

This is the 51 st article in the “Real Words or Buzzwords?” series from SecurityInfoWatch.com contributor Ray Bernard about how real words can become empty words and stifle technology progress. Access ...

BBC R&D has released the first version of the Turing codec, an open source software HEVC video encoder that allows highly efficient compression of video content with low computational complexity. Due ...

The recently released AV1 video codec works better than expected, according to Facebook engineers, after putting the new technology through a benchmark test that tried to mimic Facebook's real-life ...

Expanding its Advantiv advanced television solutions portfolio, Analog Devices, Inc., has introduced a video compression CODEC that enables a rich viewing experience for consumers with high-definition ...

One of the biggest video sites on the Net will use Google's next-generation video compression technology after it's fully defined on June 17. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen ...

Codecs are used to compress video to reduce the bandwidth required to transport streams, or to reduce the storage space required to archive them. The price for this compression is increased ...