AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Proponents of an emerging video codec called H.264 are predicting the scheme will turn the video market on its head by enabling delivery of Internet Protocol-based ...

This article appears in the August/September issue of Streaming Media magazine. Click here for your free subscription. If you produce Windows Media files, your encoder is working with code supplied by ...

Advanced Micro Peripherals’ VCODEC-H264 is a single channel H264 Codec on a single PC/104-plus form factor. It provides a powerful and flexible solution for capturing and compressing an analog video ...

In Web video encoding, there are two major standards. Google just announced it's backing its own WebM over the codec Apple and Microsoft support. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

H.264 is undoubtedly the hottest codec around, but there are inherent market forces that complicate producing files that meet the needs of your target playback device or player. These include the fact ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tapping into one of the biggest trends in information technology this year, Cisco will be open sourcing its H.264 codec for high-definition online video. The codec will be available to download for ...

Ever since Google announced its purchase of video codec company On2 in August 2009, there's been an expectation that On2's VP8 codec would someday be open-sourced and promoted as a new, open option ...

Your move Apple: Google announced that they are changing Chrome’s support of HTML5 <video> to be, in Google’s view, more friendly towards open development. The H.264 codec is being removed in favor of ...