Analog Devices has made 23 of its internally developed codecs available as free downloads from its website. The software modules, or “ingredients” as ADI likes to call them, run on Blackfin or SHARC ...

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

MPEG LA has announced plans to extend the duration of no-cost h264 licensing for free Internet video until 2016. This move lifts some of the immediate ambiguity about h264 licensing and will allow the ...

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 ...

At its annual I/O conference, Google has unveiled its plan to release a video codec it acquired as a royalty free alternative to the ISO MPEG's H.264. Google was joined by Mozilla and Opera as browser ...

Welcome to your codec update for 2023. I’m here to help you decide whether it’s time to go all in on AV1, VVC, LCEVC, or EVC or whether it’s better to stick with H.264, VP9, and HEVC. As an overview, ...

Google engineers have volunteered the company’s VP8 video codec for an emerging standards project, called WebRTC, that could provide a real time communications protocol for the Web. “We believe that ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NEW YORK--With giants such as Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft in its corner, the ...

Google engineers have volunteered the company’s VP8 video codec for an emerging standards project, called WebRTC, that could provide a real time communications protocol for the Web. “We believe that ...