I want to join the next generation of video codecs, MPEG-4, for my video projects, but I'm hopelessly confused and Google isn't helping me.<BR><BR>Here are the facts as I know them. The people who ...

Is MPEG-4 video technology the next big thing? Apple Computer's Steve Jobs thinks so. On Tuesday the company released a public preview of QuickTime 6, Apple's proprietary media player. What was ...

In the United States, digital television broadcasting, as codified in the ATSC standards, employed the latest, state-of-the-art video coding technology available at the time the standards were ...

Audio codecs are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern media systems. The first and still most prominent MPEG audio codec is mp3, which first appeared on the market in 1998. Since then, ...

The turn of the millennium brought many flavors to the managing, producing, searching and offering of digital multimedia. Of the available flavors, MPEG has risen to strategic value for audiovisual ...

At the recent Streaming Media East conference in New York City, a panel of industry heavyweights talked about what MPEG DASH is and what it means for the future of adaptive streaming. Attendees heard ...

I just got my hands on a copy of DVDit PE 2.1, and was severely dissapoined at how limited the program is. What is more concerting is that the encoder in the program takes days even weeks to encode ...

For centuries my ancestors, who lived in the lower parts of the Alps near the city of Turin, had applied a simple idea: it was more comfortable for everybody if the paths criss-crossing the mountains ...

The debate over MPEG-4's future is heating up. Its specifications have been available for some time, the MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF) just welcomed its 100th member and the Internet Streaming Media ...

The Motion Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) announced last week that the DASH specification has been ratified as a standards-based way to move forward with dynamically adaptive streaming over the HTTP ...