A common encoding format enables content created for one type of device to be easily delivered or adapted to another. A standard open format drives competition and reduces the cost of devices, thereby ...

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 ...

MPEG LA, the firm that controls licensing for a number of video and other standards, announced on Thursday that it will never charge any royalties for Internet video encoded using the H.264 standard ...

What? Microsoft and Apple seeing almost eye-to-eye on something? Yes…it’s true and concerns a bit of a hot topic on the Web at the mo: Video standards. After Jobs‘ Adobe take-down, MS has said it’ll ...

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The HTML5 video element promised to be a game-changer for Internet media publishing. It provided a vendor-neutral standards-based mechanism for conveying video content on the Web without the need for ...

In a move to encourage support for royalty-free codecs on the Web, Google announced Tuesday morning that it will remove the patent-encumbered H.264 codec from future versions of its Chrome Web browser ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google recently shook things up by announcing that the Chrome Web browser will no longer support the H.264 video codec. Fear not, though–Microsoft has come to Chrome’s rescue with a browser extension ...

Now that we've established there's an evident delta in efficiency among a small group of popular media players, it's time to look at formats. All the previous testing was performed using a H.264 video ...

The Firefox developer, seeking a foothold in mobile browsing, is poised to accept patented video technology it had spurned. That underscores the challenges for Google's competing WebM. Stephen ...