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 ...

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

In the old days, the codec pack for movie playback was badly behaved, and on the contrary there was something like going to be stupid because the movie that was playable until now can not be played ...

If you are having trouble playing a video or sound file, today's resource might be a good place to look for help. It stores a huge collection of codecs, codec packs and supporting software to make ...

Protocol reports that Qualcomm will finally jump on the AV1 video codec bandwagon next year. AV1 is the web’s next open, royalty-free video codec, and widespread adoption will require hardware support ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google has unveiled WebM, a royalty-free video codec, at its I/O conference in San Francisco Credit: Photo: Google The WebM codec is based on VP8, a web technology that Google acquired in February ...