If you’re a digital-video professional–the sort of person who records weddings, sells stock footage, or edits B-roll–chances are good you deal with the H.264 video encoding technology. But after ...

H.264 compression, otherwise known as MPEG-4 part 10 Advanced Video Codec, is rapidly becoming a preferred standard for video compression throughout the broadcast industry. As a fourth-generation ...

[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 ...

Every few months or so I visit about 50 high-profile websites to identify the codec that site is using and the data rate and resolution of the streaming video files. They’re the same sites you would ...

Few could argue that MPEG-2 has not been a workhorse of professional media compression. Created in 1988, it helped to power the commercial success of DVD disc players and is still used daily by U.S.

High-ranking Mozilla staff, believing they’ve lost a fight to keep patent-encumbered technology off the Web, have concluded it’s time to change course and support H.264 video technology. The H.264, a ...

When shooting video with your iOS 11 device, you're now using a new video format It’s time now to run a comparison of HEVC versus H.264 file sizes. Chances are, you’ve heard about the H.265 video ...

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 ...

CHENGDU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Digiarty Software today announced the latest release of its free and popular video converter – WinX Video Converter. The new version further improves the output ...

The fuss about Flash on the iPad has now expanded to a serious discussion about Web video standards. Steve Jobs‘ missive about H.264 even garnered support from Microsoft. But the debate has spun on, ...