Long long ago, before MPEG-4 was finalized as a standard, Microsoft, as a member of the MPEG-4 standard committe, was working on a partial implementation of some of the algorithms that were to be ...

I noticed that Divx released a bug-fix release for it's Mac codec today, and started wondering: which of the available codecs works best on the Mac? As far as I understand it, Divx, 3ivx, Apple, and ...

The open-source multimedia world cleared a legal hurdle three decades in the making today: the final patent covering MPEG-4 Part 2 Visual — the codec behind DivX and Xvid — expired on July 19, 2026, ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Proponents of an emerging video codec called H.264 are predicting the scheme will turn the video market on its head by enabling delivery of Internet Protocol-based ...

At the IBC conference competing advanced video and audio compression codecs from Microsoft and the MPEG-4 group of patent holder companies continued to stake their claim to market penetration.

LONDON — IndigoVision Group plc (Edinburgh, Scotland) has developed a hard-wired MPEG-4 codec intellectual property core which it says is smaller and less power-hungry than rival software-based or ...

(click thumbnail)Nero DigitalNero is promoting its Nero Digital Audio as a video and audio codec solution. It is based on MPEG-4 ISO 14496-2/-3/-10 standards, which it says allows the flexibility to ...

In our last article on MPEG-4, we looked in great depth at the question of how an entire film can be copied from a DVD onto a CD-ROM. We established that a 120-minute-long MPEG-4 video often did not ...

Codecs are the oxygen of the streaming media market; no codecs, no streaming media. From shooting video to editing to encoding our streaming media files for delivery, codecs are involved every step of ...