H.264 is a new video coding standard that promises to reduce the bandwidth necessary for HDTV transmission and distribution. It promises to be twice as efficient as existing video codecs and is in the ...

AMD has pushed out its latest Catalyst display drivers today, bringing numerous changes, including H.264 acceleration for VLC media player version 1.1.1 when running on Radeon HD 4000 and 5000 series ...

At long last, the Windows 8 Metro environment has a decent media player that can play MKV files: VLC for Windows 8! VLC Media Player Beta for Windows 8 is a complete reimagining of VLC for Microsoft's ...

The MPEG Licensing Authority has indefinitely extended the royalty-free Internet broadcasting licensing of its H.264 video codec to end users. The move erases a key advantage of Google’s WebM rival ...

Over the weekend I read another few dozen articles on the whole Apple (AAPL) and Adobe (ADBE) debate and probably read through a thousand comments. Some of the posts I read were really good, but far ...

The fuss about Flash on the iPad has now expanded to a serious discussion about Web video standards. Steve Jobs‘ missive about H.264 even garnered support from Microsoft. But the debate has spun on, ...

Just when the H.264 video codec is starting to take over a large portion of new Web videos, along comes Google to shake things up again. Today, along with Mozilla and Opera, it is launching the WebM ...

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 ...