Video compression is the critical enabler of all video streaming, and today we’re at a codec crossroads unlike any that we’ve experienced. Though H.264 remains firmly entrenched as the go-to codec for ...

Renesas Electronics Corporation has developed and will start supply of a multi-format video codec hardware IP product that supports low-delay processing for automotive information terminals that ...

Once upon time, video codecs and formats were really only the concern of AV nerds, anime freaks and hardcore not-so-legal movie downloaders. Now, even the most part-time of geeks has to deal with them ...

So there's a bunch of old VHS tapes I would like to capture while I still have the ability to actually play them. I have a USB video capture box http://blitzcast.com ...

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 ...

Want to know how to play a weird video file on your Mac? Don’t worry – there’s probably a simple solution. There are dozens of video file formats, with more being added all the time, and it’s ...

The makers of the AV1 video format have started the Open Audio Codec.

3GSM World Congress Barcelona, Spain, February 12th - Hantro today announced the signing of a license agreement with Magic Pixel Inc. of Taiwan. The agreement, which covers multi-format HW IP designs, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An essential part of a file-based workflow is the need to convert media files from one format to ...

Mozilla Foundation is considering adding support for the H.264 video codec in mobile versions of the Firefox browser, a move it has avoided up to now because H.264 is encumbered by patents. Mozilla’s ...

If you have more than one computer–for instance, a desktop and a laptop–you may have encountered video files that run on one machine but not the other. That’s probably because of a codec conflict.