H.264 is a very cool compression standard indeed, and intimately familiar to most Mac users as Apple’s own codec of choice for iTunes, Quicktime and the iPod. It’s also the codec driving YouTube and ...

Oh wow. Google’s dropping support for h.264 video in Chrome, because, they say, they’re only going to support “open codec technologies”: To that end, we are changing Chrome’s HTML5 support to make it ...

The MPEG Licensing Authority has announced that it will indefinitely extend royalty-free Internet broadcasting licensing of its H.264 video codec to end users, erasing a key advantage of Google's WebM ...

An inflection point has been reached in the online video industry: MPEG LA, the licensing association that holds patent pools as diverse as AVC, MPEG-2, and VC-1, has announced that it is lengthening ...

Google has rather nonchalantly dropped a bombshell on the web — future versions of the Chrome browser will no longer support the popular H.264 video codec. Instead Google is throwing its hat in with ...

Google recently shook things up by announcing that the Chrome Web browser will no longer support the H.264 video codec. Fear not, though–Microsoft has come to Chrome’s rescue with a browser extension ...

It's already been announced that Microsoft will be supporting HTML5 video in Internet Explorer 9. Now the company has confirmed that the codec it will be supporting is H.264. That's bad news for ...

One almost-universal truism in the world of streaming media is that licensing particular technologies can be a confusing and somewhat Byzantine process. MPEG-4 and H.264 licensing, in particular, have ...

Billed As “Possibly the Best Video Encoder Money Can Buy” Aachen, Germany and Beachwood, Ohio - MainConcept, a world leader in codecs and video technology, has released a new version of its H.264 AVC ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Some IPTV pundits say that one day there will be as many IPTV channels as there are Web sites.

Broadcom Announces Internet Protocol Set-Top Box Reference Design Platform Featuring H.264 Advanced Video Compression Technology LAS VEGAS, 2005 International CES, Jan 06, 2005 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ...

In the world of online video, there is a battle brewing over the next dominant standard for online video, especially on HTML5 Web pages. Today, Google took the gloves off and declared that it will ...