DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Google Inc. and MPEG LA, LLC announced today that they have entered into agreements granting Google a license to techniques that may be essential to VP8 and earlier-generation ...

Google today announced that it has struck a deal with MPEG LA that will allow it to license patents essential to Google’s VP8 and previous generation VPx video compression technologies. The deal will ...

The Blu-ray Disc Association said in early September that it would add high-level video compression systems from Microsoft and MPEG to the format's specifications, allowing programmers to pack more ...

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), a group of technology experts formed to create new digital standards for audio and video compression, has a rich history when it comes to creating formats that ...

The Motion Pictures Expert Group has issued a new video standards draft that promises to deliver twice the video quality at the same size, or alternatively, identical video quality at half the data ...

When the WebM project was announced back in 2010, one its selling points was that it was open and free of the licensing needs imposed by competitors like H.264. That may have been slightly overstated, ...

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 ...

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 ...