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H.264 is a very cool compression standard indeed, and intimately familiar to most Mac users as Apple’s own codec of choice for iTunes, Quicktime and the iPod. It’s also the codec driving YouTube and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The MPEG Licensing Authority has indefinitely extended the royalty-free Internet broadcasting ...

Oh wow. Google’s dropping support for h.264 video in Chrome, because, they say, they’re only going to support “open codec technologies”: To that end, we are changing Chrome’s HTML5 support to make it ...

The MPEG Licensing Authority has announced that it will indefinitely extend royalty-free Internet broadcasting licensing of its H.264 video codec to end users, erasing a key advantage of Google's WebM ...

The MPEG Licensing Authority - the group behind regulation of the popular H.264 video codec - has responding to the growing popularity of Google's rival WebM codec - by making H.264 free, forever. In ...

Google’s Chromium web browser team announced that the firm would drop support for the H.264 video codec from the Chrome web browser apparently to be ‘consistent’ in the browser’s support for so-called ...

An inflection point has been reached in the online video industry: MPEG LA, the licensing association that holds patent pools as diverse as AVC, MPEG-2, and VC-1, has announced that it is lengthening ...

MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users (known as “Internet Broadcast AVC Video”) during the ...

One almost-universal truism in the world of streaming media is that licensing particular technologies can be a confusing and somewhat Byzantine process. MPEG-4 and H.264 licensing, in particular, have ...

It's already been announced that Microsoft will be supporting HTML5 video in Internet Explorer 9. Now the company has confirmed that the codec it will be supporting is H.264. That's bad news for ...