Over the past few years H.264 has become a de facto standard for delivering high-quality videos with relatively small file sizes. It’s proven a popular format for delivering internet video and many of ...

In the world of video codecs, ProRes and H.264 are two names that often come up. Both are widely used in the industry, but they serve different purposes and offer different advantages. In this guide, ...

Over the weekend I read another few dozen articles on the whole Apple (AAPL) and Adobe (ADBE) debate and probably read through a thousand comments. Some of the posts I read were really good, but far ...

Google used a lengthy blog post last Friday to quell the firestorm around its selective dropping of native H.264 video codec support in its Chrome browser and Chromium project, in favor of the VP8 ...

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 ...

Mozilla should pick up and use H.264 codecs that are already installed on the user's system. I've previously written about a variety of reasons this would be a bad idea, especially on Windows. Really ...

Pundits are roasting Apple over a scuffle raised by Mozilla and Opera to define the free Ogg Theora video codec as the official way to present video on the web in the new HTML 5 specification. The ...

This article appears in the August/September issue of Streaming Media magazine. Click here for your free subscription. If you produce Windows Media files, your encoder is working with code supplied by ...

The HTML5 video element promised to be a game-changer for internet media publishing. It provided a vendor-neutral standards-based mechanism for conveying video content on the web without the need for ...