H.264/MPEG-4 AVC/MPEG-4 AVC, one of the video compression standards MPEG-4, is a video compression codec that aims for 'high image quality even at low bit rates'. Since its introduction in 2003, H.264 ...

MPEG LA has announced plans to extend the duration of no-cost h264 licensing for free Internet video until 2016. This move lifts some of the immediate ambiguity about h264 licensing and will allow the ...

H.264 has so far carried a flat annual cap of $100,000 for large subscription platforms. That may sound like a lot, but for ...

The MPEG Licensing Authority has indefinitely extended the royalty-free Internet broadcasting licensing of its H.264 video codec to end users. The move erases a key advantage of Google’s WebM rival ...

The recently released AV1 video codec works better than expected, according to Facebook engineers, after putting the new technology through a benchmark test that tried to mimic Facebook's real-life ...

BBC R&D has released the first version of the Turing codec, an open source software HEVC video encoder that allows highly efficient compression of video content with low computational complexity. Due ...

Expanding its Advantiv advanced television solutions portfolio, Analog Devices, Inc., has introduced a video compression CODEC that enables a rich viewing experience for consumers with high-definition ...

Google and On2 Technologies jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire On2, a developer of video compression technology. The acquisition ...

This article assumes a basic understanding of video compression algorithms. For an introduction to video coders, see How video compression works. Announced in the fall of 2008, On2 Technologies' 8 th ...