H.264 compression, otherwise known as MPEG-4 part 10 Advanced Video Codec, is rapidly becoming a preferred standard for video compression throughout the broadcast industry. As a fourth-generation ...

If you’re a digital-video professional–the sort of person who records weddings, sells stock footage, or edits B-roll–chances are good you deal with the H.264 video encoding technology. But after ...

Every few months or so I visit about 50 high-profile websites to identify the codec that site is using and the data rate and resolution of the streaming video files. They’re the same sites you would ...

In the ever-evolving world of technology and video capture and formats, new standards often appear to enhance our digital lives. A good example of this is the high-performance file formats and codecs ...

High-ranking Mozilla staff, believing they’ve lost a fight to keep patent-encumbered technology off the Web, have concluded it’s time to change course and support H.264 video technology. The H.264, a ...

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 fuss about Flash on the iPad has now expanded to a serious discussion about Web video standards. Steve Jobs‘ missive about H.264 even garnered support from Microsoft. But the debate has spun on, ...

Via Licensing Alliance (Via LA), the patent pool administrator for H.264/AVC, quietly restructured its streaming license fees recently, replacing a flat $100,000 annual cap with a tiered system that ...

No, you’re not reading that headline wrong. Last month, Google announced that it was removing support for H.264 video playback via the HTML5 <video> tag in its Chrome browser. The odd part about that ...