In recent years, the adoption of the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) standards helped digital video become a key ingredient in the digital entertainment industry and offered consumers a new ...

MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) codec adoption in digital video devices isn't thought of as a growth opportunity for the MPEG-2 video codec, but it is. Rather than cannibalize the business for MPEG ...

After running Microsoft’s MPEG-2 codec check utility on both machines it turned out I have 10 MPEG-2 decoders installed while he only has two, one of which isn’t on my list. Rather than trying to ...

Moonlight Cordless will enable the digital storing and distribution of MPEG-2 video content to multiple PCs and IP set-top boxes throughout the home or enterprise using a consumer-grade video capture ...

In 2020, the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) plans to launch three different codecs. To put that in perspective, there was a nine-year gap between MPEG-2 (1994) and H.264 (2003), and a ten-year ...

Known as H.264, among other designations, the new format is turning heads over claims that it can deliver DVD-quality broadcasts over the Internet using considerably fewer network resources than ...

Developed by NTT Electronics, the VASA LSI is reportedly the industry's first single-chip MPEG-2 HDTV codec. The versatile and advanced signal processing architecture (VASA) codec is also available as ...

Following on the news that tech patent pool administrators MPEG-LA and Via Licensing have joined forces to form Via LA, Via LA President Heath Hoglund discusses how the "united entity" will operate, ...

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. As Hollywood readies its new and controversial high-definition DVDs, at least one major studio is leaving some of the most advanced parts ...

CODEC is one of those newly invented words that's only been in the dictionary for a few years, yet what it represents may be one of the most important pieces of technology in all of AV. There are at ...