MPEG LA has announced that it is extending the royalty free license for its H.264 video codec for the duration of the license. What this means is that websites can continue to use the codec for ...

H.264, the newest video compression technology, presents a huge step forward for many industries. Without compromising image quality, an H.264 encoder can reduce the size of a digital video file by ...

The turbo.264 video encoder from Elgato has been available for several years. Software improvements along the way, have only made it more useful (and easier) for those who convert video content into ...

Just weeks after Google said it would be dropping support for content on the H.264 format on its Chrome browser, rival Microsoft has unveiled a HTML5 Extension for Chrome. The new plug-in from ...

In the ever-evolving world of technology and video capture and formats, new standards often appear to enhance our digital lives. A good example of this is the high-performance file formats and codecs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The increasing criticism of Flash as a vehicle for online video delivery (as well as Apple’s dislike of Flash) appears to be driving the adoption of H.264 video. A recent study by video search site ...

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 ...

Google recently shook things up by announcing that the Chrome Web browser will no longer support the H.264 video codec. Fear not, though–Microsoft has come to Chrome’s rescue with a browser extension ...

Microsoft’s announcement that Internet Explorer 9 will support the H.264 exclusively as the codec for HTML5 has stirred up consistent interest in the few days since it was shared with the public.