Some think license terms for the popular video encoding technology mean Apple's Final Cut Pro should be called Final Cut Hobbyist. Not so fast. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

H.264 is a buzzword throughout the industry. Since the first version of the H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 compression standard was released in 2003, there have been multiple revisions, improvements and ...

H.264, the newest video compression technology, presents a huge step forward for many industries. Without compromising image quality, an H.264 encoder can reduce the size of a digital video file by ...

Internet and video coding technologies have grown significantly. With Internet-based multimedia applications, digital rights management and security are extremely important for authentication and ...

Microsoft has announced a plug-in for Google’s Chrome web browser that allows Chrome on Windows to play H.264 web video through the HTML5 tag. The new plug-in comes on the heels of Google’s decision ...

The H.264 video compression standard defines the bitstream resulting from compressing video using the tools within the standard. The standard does not describe how the tools are implemented nor does ...

Microsoft has put its stake in the ground and committed to supporting H.264 in Internet Explorer 9. That the next browser version would support H.264 HTML5 video was no surprise (though the current ...

Google has announced the intention to remove support for H.264 video playback from its Crome browser to "enable open innovation," yet still apparently plans to promote Adobe Flash. According to Google ...

Google plans to remove H.264 video support from its Chrome browser. The video standard (also called AVC) has been part of a fight over the future of the Internet. It looks as though Google has ...

A handful of readers are reporting an issue where videos compressed using H.264 play back in QuickTime with pale, unsaturated colors while the same videos have correct color in the third-party players ...

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 ...