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 ...

Patents management company MPEG LA announced agreements with Google, granting the Internet giant a license to techniques that may be essential to the VP8 video codec that the Internet giant backs. VP8 ...

The EETimes has word of a new video compression and decompression codec aimed at cellular and handheld applications. Office Noa Inc. developed the system, dubbed Nancy, with low power and processor ...

MOV is not one file format but rather a format envelope that can be made up of any of dozens of codecs, resolutions, and frame rates from basic DV through H.264, HEVC to ProRes, and other pro formats.

These days, many people find themselves completely immersed in online video, which often proves more engaging and easier to digest than other forms of media. But that also brings unexpected problems.

When you watch a video on the web or your mobile phone, the odds are pretty good you are using the MP4 video format and the H.264 codec. There are a lot of choices when it comes to video formats. But, ...