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.

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 ...

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 ...

The MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF) has announced the launch of a new 6th round of interoperability testing, in which 30 companies will test the latest MPEG-4 audio and visual codecs. The codecs featured ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Video technology firm IndigoVision has announced an MPEG4 codec implemented entirely in hardware. The Mainstream codec provides DVD-quality video, and includes a framegrabber that interfaces directly ...