In 2020, the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) plans to launch three different codecs. To put that in perspective, there was a nine-year gap between MPEG-2 (1994) and H.264 (2003), and a ten-year ...

MPEG-2 patent expiration opens door for royalty-free use Your email has been sent Building a slide deck, pitch, or presentation? Here are the big takeaways: The last patent for the MPEG-2 video codec ...

Widely adopted video-coding standards are subject to obsolescence that follows a different form of “Moore’s Law.” Although silicon speed roughly doubles every 18 months, video-coding efficiency ...

Adtec Digital has begun shipping mediaHUB-HD, a broadcast-quality HD real-time encoder targeted at ATSC, DVB and studio applications. The encoder was designed for contribution, distribution and studio ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has started selling licences for MPEG-2 and VC-1 video codecs, after complaints from users who turned the cheap Linux computer into a media centre. Because the £25 Linux ...

Apple today released QuickTime 6 MPEG-2 Playback Component. The new component is aimed at professional content creators who want to be able to view MPEG-2 streams without having to transcode them into ...

Hi all,<BR><BR>A year and a half ago my family purchased a new DV Camcorder, a Panasonic PV-GS70 3CCD camera.<BR><BR>I've been converting most of our home videos to DVD using various methods, and I ...