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 ...

Without a doubt, the most popular session at Streaming Media West was a panel discussion called MPEG DASH: Driving the Growth of Streaming Using the New HTTP Standard, which pulled a standing-room, ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Blu-ray Disc Association said in early September that it would add high-level video ...

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, ...

LONDON — An MPEG-4 transfer format based on the Real-time Transfer Protocol (RTP) has moved closer to becoming an accepted standard for the transfer of MPEG-4 compressed video streams. The RTP ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...