H.264 is undoubtedly the hottest codec around, but there are inherent market forces that complicate producing files that meet the needs of your target playback device or player. These include the fact ...

In the world of video codecs, ProRes and H.264 are two names that often come up. Both are widely used in the industry, but they serve different purposes and offer different advantages. In this guide, ...

While many companies leverage AI to enhance the performance of existing codecs like H.264, HEVC, and AV1, UK-based Deep Render is developing a fully AI-based codec. To promote the understanding of AI ...

Look around you for devices that play digital video. Maybe you see a cable box, Blu-ray player, iPad, PlayStation 3, a Windows 7 PC or an Xbox. All these devices play video using the much-ballyhooed H ...

Ever since Google announced its purchase of video codec company On2 in August 2009, there’s been an expectation that On2’s VP8 codec would someday be open-sourced and promoted as a new, open option ...

LAS VEGAS — Fabless chip developer Sand Video Inc. demonstrated a high-definition, real-time H.264 decoder implemented on two Xilinx Inc. field-programmable gate arrays at the Consumer Electronics ...

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 ...

Mozilla's director of research Andreas Gal has proposed enabling mobile H.264 video decoding via hardware or the underlying operating system, signaling the end to the group's war on the Apple-led ...

This paper presents the development of an IP core for an H.264 decoder. This state-of-the-art video compression standard contributes to reduce the huge demand for bandwidth and storage of multimedia ...

Google wants its WebM/VP8 codec to be made a mandatory standard for real-time communications on the web, and has recommended against the use of the H.264 codec. At the moment, the W3C's draft ...