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 ...

Increases over MPEG4 and MJPEG could make H.264 the No. 1 format for surveillance Fredrik Nilsson is a regular contributor for SecurityInfoWatch.com and general manager of network video company Axis ...

Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA) today extended its family of high-performance H.264-compliant ICs, announcing a new transcoder designed to compress full high definition (1920 x 1080) MPEG ...

From digital televisions to portable electronics, the H.264/AVC next-generation video compression standard is becoming mainstream. And major processor makers–mainly Japan-based firms–are facilitating ...

ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An improved H.264 Encoder Core just released by semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. helps video system designers use advanced H.264 video ...

Few could argue that MPEG-2 has not been a workhorse of professional media compression. Created in 1988, it helped to power the commercial success of DVD disc players and is still used daily by U.S.

H.264 has so far carried a flat annual cap of $100,000 for large subscription platforms. That may sound like a lot, but for ...

The group that licenses the widely used H.264 video compression technology decides against adding a Web-streaming royalty charge that could have helped rival formats such as Ogg Theora. Stephen ...

The significant coding efficiency of H.264 video compression technology opens a wide range of new applications for streaming video over a variety of media. This international standard has risen in ...

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 ...

Learn about the impact of compression methods (MJPEG, MPEG-4, H.264) on storage, bandwidth in video surveillance, and the shift from VCRs to DVRs and NVRs for efficient storage solutions. Digital ...

Building on the company's enhanced multimedia architecture (EMMA), the EMMA3SL/HD and EMMA3SL/SD SoCs support the next-generation H.264 video compression standard, which offers twice the compression ...