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 ...

PARIS — Has MPEG had its day? A Milpitas, Calif. startup will argue in the affirmative Monday (March 25) when it announces an object-based video coding algorithm that it calls a radical departure from ...

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 ...

The new series, which consists of two devices, the MB86H01 AA and MB86H01 AB, supports the DVB(*3) broadcasting standard used in these regions, and features MPEG-2 and H.264 decoders integrated into ...

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 ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MPEG LA, LLC, the world leader in digital video patent pool licensing for nearly 25 years, announced today the development of a pool license for the next generation video ...

All of that squabbling over H.264 may be rendered moot in the near future. The Motion Picture Experts Group (better known as MPEG) has just let us know that it was quietly drafting a new video ...

A new MPEG video standard called High Efficiency Video Coding claims to be twice as efficient as current standards which essentially means that we can expect to download movies twice as fast as before ...