TV Technology

MPEG LA extends royalty-free use of H.264 video codec for Internet use

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 ...
Ars Technica

Royalty-free codec still needed despite no-cost h264 license

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 ...
AppleInsider

Ogg Theora, H.264 and the HTML 5 Browser Squabble

Pundits are roasting Apple over a scuffle raised by Mozilla and Opera to define the free Ogg Theora video codec as the official way to present video on the web in the new HTML 5 specification. The ...
Ars Technica

Google opens VP8 codec, aims to nuke H.264 with WebM

Google's long-awaited open-sourcing of the VP8 video codec has finally happened and both Mozilla and Opera are on board with it. The new codec and container combine decent quality with open source ...