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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The broadcast industry will begin reaping the benefits of more efficient compression thanks to ...

The new video coding standard known as H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC), now in its fourth version, has demonstrated significant achievements in terms of coding efficiency, robustness to a ...

How does XviD compare to the newest AVC H.264 codec, which also has a chance of being included in HD-DVD? If i have a 4GB MPEG-4 file in XviD and AVC, which will have higher quality? I'm guessing AVC, ...

Abstract: The efficiency of H.264 video compression together with the wide use of MPEG-2 today necessitates transcoding between these two technologies. The combination of bandwidth efficient ...

As the camera / camcorder world continues to embrace video sharing sites, it's no surprise to see this little critter emerge from the labs of JVC-Victor. The pictured dual codec LSI chip handles both ...

MPEG LA, the group that oversees licensing for a number of Internet media standards, today announced that Internet broadcast content using the H.264 video coding standard will remain royalty-free for ...

The H.264 codec that makes a good deal of digital video possible has actually been free to use (under certain conditions) for many years, but following recent controversies over the future of web ...

Elgato on Friday introduced Elgato Video Capture, a new device that enables Mac users to transfer analog video to H.264 or MPEG-4 video files. It costs $100. Elgato Video Capture includes a USB 2.0 ...

The MPEG Licensing Authority - the group behind regulation of the popular H.264 video codec - has responding to the growing popularity of Google's rival WebM codec - by making H.264 free, forever. In ...