At its January meeting in Pisa, Italy, the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) finished and approved an extension to MPEG-4 video coding. This enhancement uses fine granular scalability as well as the ...

The technology for streaming audio by itself is acceptable – just consider music and phone conversations. Video, however, is different and by the way requires audio. In the 1920s silent movies gave ...

Yesterday, Apple released a preview version of QuickTime 6 that supports MPEG-4, a new standard for rich media on the Internet. Despite QuickTime 6’s release, Apple still hasn’t worked out all of the ...

Apple Computer has rejected proposed licensing terms for the emerging MPEG-4 video standard, leaving the future of its QuickTime multimedia technology in limbo. At a company-sponsored conference ...

DENVER—MPEG LA, LLC has announced that its AVC Patent Portfolio License (“AVC License”) has been expanded to provide coverage for the entire Multiview Video Coding (“MVC”) portion of the AVC ...

Motorola, the No. 2 mobile phone maker, has acquired Modulus Video, a private Sunnyvale, Calif. company for an undisclosed amount. See announcement here. Modulus Video offers MPEG-4 Advanced Video ...

Video-compression provider On2 Technologies is taking a swing at MPEG-4, complaining that companies cooperating to create a digital media standard may run afoul of antitrust laws. New York-based On2 ...

Managing IP sat down with Nokia’s head of multimedia technologies, Ville-Veikko Mattila, to discuss the cutting-edge applications of Versatile Video Coding, and the societal challenges that could be ...

BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Media Coding Industry Forum (MC-IF) welcomes the completion of Versatile Video Coding (VVC). VVC is a new video coding standard with improved compression ...