Digital video found its first big consumer market in DVD players, and has moved on from there. Now you can buy digital set-top boxes, camcorders, personal video recorders (PVRs), portable media ...

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 ...

H.264 is a buzzword throughout the industry. Since the first version of the H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 compression standard was released in 2003, there have been multiple revisions, improvements and ...

H.264 is the only compression technology that plays on all computers, mobile devices, and OTT players. This makes producing high-quality H.264 files compatible with your target playback devices an ...

In the ever-evolving world of technology and video capture and formats, new standards often appear to enhance our digital lives. A good example of this is the high-performance file formats and codecs ...

Codecs are used to compress video to reduce the bandwidth required to transport streams, or to reduce the storage space required to archive them. The price for this compression is increased ...

[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 ...

The fuss about Flash on the iPad has now expanded to a serious discussion about Web video standards. Steve Jobs‘ missive about H.264 even garnered support from Microsoft. But the debate has spun on, ...

Mozilla's director of research Andreas Gal has proposed enabling mobile H.264 video decoding via hardware or the underlying operating system, signaling the end to the group's war on the Apple-led ...

Update: The bits are up and it looks like the Linux players have been updated as well. Note: The actual download is coming later today, just hold tight. Also, here is my no fluff response. We're ...