There's no question that MPEG-4 is going to succeed MPEG-2 as the standard for streaming digital video. Faster processor speeds and cheap (already less than $200) video capture and playback cards will ...

MPEG LA said this week that it plans to meet with patent holders of MPEG-4 video compression technology in late April to hammer out its controversial licensing agreements. In January, the licensing ...

At the recent 2005 International CES convention, TANDBERG and Broadcom showcased interoperability between Broadcom’s set-top box decoder reference platform and TANDBERG’s EN5990 video encoder ...

A newly proposed MPEG-4 licensing plan is sending jitters through multimedia circles, raising cost concerns about a new standard that promises to bring powerful interactive features to digital video.

While Microsoft and RealNetworks wage a noisy fight over their audio and video technologies, an underdog with a strong pedigree and whiz-bang features is quietly entering the fray. After lying low for ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. MPEG-4 AVC offers many tools for coding video and higher coding efficiency than MPEG-2. The ...

The key license for use of the MPEG-4 digital compression standard is now available, MPEG LA LLC, a group of MPEG-4 patent holders said this week. The release ends a dispute around licensing for ...

H.264 is the latest official video compression standard, which follows from the highly successful MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video standards and offers improvements in both video quality and compression. The ...

If you view video on your computer or listen to music you downloaded from the Internet, you probably use MPEG technology. In contrast to data files, audio and video files tend to be very large and ...

Because video clips are made up of sequences of individual images, or “frames,” video compression algorithms share many concepts and techniques with still-image compression algorithms. Therefore, we ...

Stockholm, Sweden-based Popwire on Tuesday announced that it is shipping Compression Engine 2, a digital media encoding system for broadcasters, media companies and others. Compression Engine 2 runs ...