The broadcast industry will begin reaping the benefits of more efficient compression thanks to MPEG-4 AVC H.264. With about half the bit rate requirements of its predecessor, MPEG-4 AVC H.264 promises ...

Pick up just about any technical publication these days and it's hard to miss the good news about the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video standard. Yes, AVC is a powerful new platform that allows high quality ...

A common designation for the H.264 video standard, which uses a family of compression techniques titled Advanced Video Coding (AVC). Also called "H.264/MPEG-4," "H.264/MPEG-4 AVC" and "MPEG-4/AVC." ...

The DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF) announced today the completion of a pared down version of DASH profiles known as DASH-AVC/264. When MPEG-DASH was ratified back in late 2011, it piqued a great deal ...

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 ...

Since its inception almost 10 years ago, the H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 standard or AVC (Advanced Video Coding) has become one of the most commonly used formats for recording, compressing and distributing ...

H.264 is undoubtedly the hottest codec around, but there are inherent market forces that complicate producing files that meet the needs of your target playback device or player. These include the fact ...

If you’re a digital-video professional–the sort of person who records weddings, sells stock footage, or edits B-roll–chances are good you deal with the H.264 video encoding technology. But after ...

Despite its promise of improved coding efficiency over existingstandards, H.264/AVC still presentsengineering challenges. It incorporates the most significant changes andalgorithmic discontinuities in ...

The MPEG Licensing Authority has announced that it will indefinitely extend royalty-free Internet broadcasting licensing of its H.264 video codec to end users, erasing a key advantage of Google's WebM ...