AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Proponents of an emerging video codec called H.264 are predicting the scheme will turn the video market on its head by enabling delivery of Internet Protocol-based ...

If the barrage of IC launches offers any evidence, then MPEG-4 looks to be well on its way to becoming the mainstream codec technology after years of development and competition from other standards.

IndigoVision claims to have the first MPEG4 codec beating larger chip firms and IP houses to this next generation multimedia technology. Called Mainstream, the coder/decoder is implemented entirely in ...

I noticed that Divx released a bug-fix release for it's Mac codec today, and started wondering: which of the available codecs works best on the Mac? As far as I understand it, Divx, 3ivx, Apple, and ...

CUPERTINO, Calif.--Protocom Technology Corp. today said it will demonstrate the industry's first hardwired chip based on MPEG-4 technology for NTSC/PAL-resolution television images at full frame rates ...

I want to join the next generation of video codecs, MPEG-4, for my video projects, but I'm hopelessly confused and Google isn't helping me.<BR><BR>Here are the facts as I know them. The people who ...

Comrex, a manufacturer of professional broadcasting equipment, is licensing Fraunhofer IIS implementations of two of the most efficient audio compression technologies standardized in MPEG-4. By ...

In our last article on MPEG-4, we looked in great depth at the question of how an entire film can be copied from a DVD onto a CD-ROM. We established that a 120-minute-long MPEG-4 video often did not ...

(click thumbnail)Nero DigitalNero is promoting its Nero Digital Audio as a video and audio codec solution. It is based on MPEG-4 ISO 14496-2/-3/-10 standards, which it says allows the flexibility to ...