EDN

H.264 codec jeopardizes MPEG-4’s ascendancy

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 ...
EDN

VCODEC-H264 PC/104-Plus H264 Codec

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 ...
Streaming Media Magazine

So Many H.264 Codecs, So Little Time

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 ...
Ars Technica

Royalty-free codec still needed despite no-cost h264 license

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 ...
CNET

Google yanking H.264 video out of Chrome

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 ...
TV Technology

H.264 Standardization Nearly Complete

H.264 is a new video coding standard that promises to reduce the bandwidth necessary for HDTV transmission and distribution. It promises to be twice as efficient as existing video codecs and is in the ...
Streaming Media Magazine

Cracking the H.264 Codec

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 ...
ecoustics

InterVideo H.264 Codec Combines with NVIDIA Hardware to Accelerate High-definition Decoding

FREMONT, Calif. — January 24, 2006 — InterVideo, Inc. (NASDAQ: IVII), an industry leader in DVD, MPEG and high-definition (HD) multimedia software technology, announced today that its H.264 Codec now ...
PC World

Mozilla May Support H.264 Video Codec in Firefox to Compete on Mobile Phones

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 ...
TechCrunch

Google, Mozilla, And Opera Take On H.264 With The WebM Project, A New Royalty-Free Video Codec

Just when the H.264 video codec is starting to take over a large portion of new Web videos, along comes Google to shake things up again. Today, along with Mozilla and Opera, it is launching the WebM ...
ZDNet

Google Chrome to drop H.264 support; roadblock to HTML5?

Update: For a further discussion of the patent-related issues and costs, see my follow-up post, By dropping H.264, is Google avoiding a trap or walking into one? Just when you thought the World Wide ...