The broadcast industry will begin reaping the benefits of more efficient compression thanks to MPEG-4 AVC H.264. With about half the bit rate requirements of its predecessor, MPEG-4 AVC H.264 promises ...

A common designation for the H.264 video standard, which uses a family of compression techniques titled Advanced Video Coding (AVC). Also called "H.264/MPEG-4," "H.264/MPEG-4 AVC" and "MPEG-4/AVC." ...

The DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF) announced today the completion of a pared down version of DASH profiles known as DASH-AVC/264. When MPEG-DASH was ratified back in late 2011, it piqued a great deal ...

Digital Rapids Studio AVC Encoder creates MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 streams / Updates for Transcode Manager software Archive notice: This article was originally published on April 19, 2007. Links and embedded ...

Prior to Google's announcement earlier today of its open sourcing the VP8 video codec, a spokesperson for MPEG LA -- the licensing agent that manages the patent portfolio for multimedia technologies ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Motion Pictures Expert Group has issued a new video standards draft that promises to deliver twice the video quality at the same size, or alternatively, identical video quality at half the data ...

Despite its promise of improved coding efficiency over existingstandards, H.264/AVC still presentsengineering challenges. It incorporates the most significant changes andalgorithmic discontinuities in ...

Using 4:2:2 10-bit encoding has become the de facto standard for professional video because it is captured and transmitted over SDI, allowing the entire production chain to use at least a 10-bit ...