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, ...
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 ...
Google has rather nonchalantly dropped a bombshell on the web — future versions of the Chrome browser will no longer support the popular H.264 video codec. Instead Google is throwing its hat in with ...
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Streaming video websites like YouTube face growing pressure from consumers to provide support for native standards-based Web video playback. The HTML5 video element provides the necessary ...
H.264 is undoubtedly the hottest codec around, but there are inherent market forces that complicate producing files that meet the needs of your target playback device or player. These include the fact ...
Mozilla Foundation is considering adding support for the H.264 video codec in mobile versions of the Firefox browser, a move it has avoided up to now because H.264 is encumbered by patents. Mozilla’s ...
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 ...