As noted in our fifth-generation (with video) iPod coverage, several users are experiencing issues with synchronizing home-compressed video to the device. Many users reporting this problem are using ...

A standards body comprising such tech heavyweights as Apple Computer and Cisco Systems has released a specification for streaming MPEG-4 video and audio via the Web. The Internet Streaming Media ...

In the United States, digital television broadcasting, as codified in the ATSC standards, employed the latest, state-of-the-art video coding technology available at the time the standards were ...

MPEG-4 AVC offers many tools for coding video and higher coding efficiency than MPEG-2. The growing number of AVC applications is facilitated by a broad set of profiles, which group together different ...

How does XviD compare to the newest AVC H.264 codec, which also has a chance of being included in HD-DVD? If i have a 4GB MPEG-4 file in XviD and AVC, which will have higher quality? I'm guessing AVC, ...

Yesterday, Apple released a preview version of QuickTime 6 that supports MPEG-4, a new standard for rich media on the Internet. Despite QuickTime 6’s release, Apple still hasn’t worked out all of the ...

Editors' Note: This article has been updated since its original posting. Seven years ago, when I was still a clueless kid, I played my first video clip on the Internet using a 56k connection. It was ...

MPEG LA, a group of patent holders governing MPEG-4, on Monday finalized licensing terms for the media delivery standard, bowing to market pressure for manageable royalty rates. "We've met a lot of ...

Apple Computer has rejected proposed licensing terms for the emerging MPEG-4 video standard, leaving the future of its QuickTime multimedia technology in limbo. At a company-sponsored conference ...

When we asked our faithful readers what technological advances had made the biggest difference to their lives, Prospero424 stepped up to the plate to deliver a humdinger: video compression. To ...

Talking while showing pictures and graphs in a PowerPoint 2007 presentation is enough for most people but, if you want to captivate your audience, insert one of more video files in your PowerPoint ...