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, ...

H.264 is the most widely used codec today, whether for streaming via Flash or Silverlight or for the Apple iPod, iPhone, and iPad product lines. If you've worked with H.264 before, the format is old ...

Know Your Rights is Engadget's technology law series, written by our own totally punk ex-copyright attorney Nilay Patel. In it we'll try to answer some fundamental tech-law questions to help you stay ...

One almost-universal truism in the world of streaming media is that licensing particular technologies can be a confusing and somewhat Byzantine process. MPEG-4 and H.264 licensing, in particular, have ...

H.264 is the latest official video compression standard, which follows from the highly successful MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video standards and offers improvements in both video quality and compression. The ...

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 ...

Digital video found its first big consumer market in DVD players, and has moved on from there. Now you can buy digital set-top boxes, camcorders, personal video recorders (PVRs), portable media ...

If you've been following the recent controversy over video formats in HTML5, you know that software patents are a key part of Microsoft's decision to adopt the H.264 standard as the native codec to ...

H.264 video encoding/decoding is defined in more than 20 versions, known as "Profiles." See H.264. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

Numerous industries in broadcast, cable, videoconferencing and consumer electronics space are using H.264 as the video codec of choice for their products and services. The H.264/AVC video coding ...