H.264 SVC and H.264 MVC are emerging standards for scalable video delivery. They let operators deliver the best available HD content (1080p60 and full-HD 3D) while saving distribution network ...

The testing of advanced video decoders is a daunting task, considering the greater complexity and nonlinearity of H.264 compared with MPEG-2. Decoding depends on numerous contexts and states that one ...

[In response to reader questions and comments, this article was updated at 6:20 a.m. on Monday, May 24. See author's comments at the end of the article.—Ed] VP8 is now free, but if the quality is ...

This paper presents the development of an IP core for an H.264 decoder. This state-of-the-art video compression standard contributes to reduce the huge demand for bandwidth and storage of multimedia ...

H.264 is the latest official video compression standard, which follows from the highly successful MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video standards and offers improvements in both video quality and compression. The ...

In the world of video codecs, ProRes and H.264 are two names that often come up. Both are widely used in the industry, but they serve different purposes and offer different advantages. In this guide, ...

Know Your Rights is Engadget's technology law series, written by our own totally punk ex-copyright attorney Nilay Patel. In it we'll try to answer some fundamental tech-law questions to help you stay ...

In the ever-evolving world of technology and video capture and formats, new standards often appear to enhance our digital lives. A good example of this is the high-performance file formats and codecs ...

If you've been following the recent controversy over video formats in HTML5, you know that software patents are a key part of Microsoft's decision to adopt the H.264 standard as the native codec to ...

I read license agreements so that you don't have to. This weekend, I've been digging deep into the agreements that govern your right to encode and decode video content using the AVC/H.264 standard.