Earlier this week, Steve Jobs said quite confidently that alternatives like H.264 have already made the lion’s share of web video available to devices that don’t ...

[In response to reader questions and comments, this article was updated at 6:20 a.m. on Monday, May 24. See author's comments at the end of the article.—Ed] VP8 is now free, but if the quality is ...

Last week Netflix debuted offline viewing mode, something that subscribers have been wanting for a long time. With the offline mode, users were allowed to download shows and movies directly to their ...

Cinegy has announced the release of a new version of its Cinecoder video codec SDK, solving a fundamental problem for TV and broadcast industries. The H.264 interlace video format is globally used for ...

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 ...

The H.264 video compression standard defines the bitstream resulting from compressing video using the tools within the standard. The standard does not describe how the tools are implemented nor does ...

H.264 is the latest official video compression standard, which follows from the highly successful MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video standards and offers improvements in both video quality and compression. The ...