Part 2 of this series discussed applications for digital video on the Internet, professional editing systems and processing software. Part 3 covers popular video formats and their fields of ...

Digital Video is large. Really large. A professional quality HD studio video camera produces just over a gigabit every second (1 Gb/s) when making the kind of video we currently show on BBC HD (which ...

Video compression technologies continue to evolve to improve storage of data and images, as well as allow coders to initiate real-time changes to processes as needed. These latest techniques in fully ...

Known as H.264, among other designations, the new format is turning heads over claims that it can deliver DVD-quality broadcasts over the Internet using considerably fewer network resources than ...

Sorenson Media has introduced the Sorenson Squeeze 4, a new line of video-compression applications for digital video. The new product family includes the Sorenson Squeeze 4 Compression Suite, Sorenson ...

A media container is a “wrapper” that contains video, audio and data elements, and can function as a file entity or as an encapsulation method for a live stream. Because container formats are now ...

The IP surveillance market has boomed over the past decade with dozens, if not hundreds, of new players emerging and traditional CCTV manufacturers expanding into networked technologies. With the ...

When you take the plunge into playing with digital video on your computer, it's helpful to know something about the file formats, which are not all interchangeable or compatible. AVI, or Audio Video ...

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