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 ...

Released a few years back, Codec is a free plugin from developer Lese that uses internet compression algorithms to give sounds a distinctive lo-fi character. Lese has just updated Codec to version 2.0 ...

NEW YORK—The compression algorithm at the center of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” has put a spotlight on an important part of the life of the internet. Compression is necessary to make files smaller so they ...

AMSTERDAM — Does the world need yet another video codec? BBC made a strong case that it does, at the International Broadcast Conference (IBC) this week, pitching a new compression family called Dirac ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NEW YORK--With giants such as Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft in its corner, the ...

Yesterday a new consortium called the Alliance for Open Media announced that it's working on creating a new royalty-free codec for internet-delivered video. Here are some thoughts on the ...

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 ...

At its annual I/O conference, Google has unveiled its plan to release a video codec it acquired as a royalty free alternative to the ISO MPEG's H.264. Google was joined by Mozilla and Opera as browser ...

If authentic, a new e-mail from Steve Jobs indicates that Apple and Microsoft--of all bedfellows--could be preparing to challenge the validity of open-source video codecs. Roy had challenged Jobs on a ...