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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Released a few years back, Codec is a free plugin from developer Lese that uses internet compression algorithms to give sounds a ...

The following blogpost originally appeared on Florian Mueller's Fosspatents blog. Mueller has been following the ups and downs of software patents on the web closely for a long time. Here's his latest ...

The Alliance for Open Media, or AOMedia, recently released its royalty-free AV1 video codec, which delivers 4K ultrahigh-definition or higher online video, while also lowering data usage. So, what ...

NEW YORK--With giants such as Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft in its corner, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) has released the 1.0 version of AV1, a next-gen, royalty-free codec ...

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

There’s a lot of interest in ultra-high definition (UHD) video, and the two codecs that drive it, HEVC and VP9. Over the past few months, a new UHD codec called Daala has also come to the fore. I ...