Over the weekend I read another few dozen articles on the whole Apple (AAPL) and Adobe (ADBE) debate and probably read through a thousand comments. Some of the posts I read were really good, but far ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a move to encourage support for royalty-free codecs on the Web, Google announced Tuesday morning that it will remove the patent-encumbered H.264 codec from future versions of its Chrome Web browser ...

Look around you for devices that play digital video. Maybe you see a cable box, Blu-ray player, iPad, PlayStation 3, a Windows 7 PC or an Xbox. All these devices play video using the much-ballyhooed H ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Alameda, CA--RGB Spectrum is introducing a new line of H.264 codecs for the streaming and ...