A common encoding format enables content created for one type of device to be easily delivered or adapted to another. A standard open format drives competition and reduces the cost of devices, thereby ...

The HTML5 video element promised to be a game-changer for Internet media publishing. It provided a vendor-neutral standards-based mechanism for conveying video content on the Web without the need for ...

Microsoft has put its stake in the ground and committed to supporting H.264 in Internet Explorer 9. That the next browser version would support H.264 HTML5 video was no surprise (though the current ...

After the world has grown accustomed to the H264 format which is mainly used for compressing HD video, a new standard is on its way. HEVC should be twice as efficient as H264, with no quality loss The ...

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 ...

Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. announced the industry’s first large-scale IC capable of real-time compression and decompression of high-definition TV-level video in H.264 format. Low Power ...

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 ...

After igniting a hailstorm of controversy over its intent to drop HTML5's H.264 support from its Chrome browser, Google has reaffirmed its intent to push its own open WebM video codec via Flash-like ...

If you’re a digital-video professional—someone who records weddings, sells stock footage, or edits B-roll—chances are good you deal with H.264. But after reading software license agreements, you might ...

Update: The bits are up and it looks like the Linux players have been updated as well. Note: The actual download is coming later today, just hold tight. Also, here is my no fluff response. We're ...

As an open, published specification, anyone can implement H.264/AVC. Licensing terms for a portfolio of essential implementation patents were announced in late 2005 by MPEG LA, and as of August 2007, ...