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 advent of high-resolution video has pushed H.264 to its limits, and AV1 offers notable improvements specifically designed ...
Google has rather nonchalantly dropped a bombshell on the web — future versions of the Chrome browser will no longer support the popular H.264 video codec. Instead Google is throwing its hat in with ...
This article appears in the August/September issue of Streaming Media magazine. Click here for your free subscription. If you produce Windows Media files, your encoder is working with code supplied by ...
In a move to encourage support for royalty-free codecs on the Web, Google announced Tuesday morning that it will remove the patent-encumbered H.264 codec from future versions of its Chrome Web browser ...
Mozilla Foundation is considering adding support for the H.264 video codec in mobile versions of the Firefox browser, a move it has avoided up to now because H.264 is encumbered by patents. Mozilla’s ...