Google’s attempt to create its own royalty-free video standard took a blow last night on news that MPEG LA has declared the popular H.264 codec will be made available royalty-free forever. Critics had ...

The main object of HTML5 specification is to transfer playback of multimedia video and audio to the browser itself without installing additional plug-ins. However, browser developers cannot decide on ...

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 ...

The battle for the future of Web video has been nothing if not confusing, and it isn’t over yet. MPEG LA, the industry group responsible for various audio and video formats, announced that it’ll keep ...

Last week's articles about Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser and Wikimedia's use of an open-source video codec (Ogg Theora, based on the older VP3 codec) have elicited responses not only ...

YouTube made waves Wednesday evening when it announced a Flash-less HTML5 video player. And now, mere months after rolling out a mobile-friendly site for iPhone and ...

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"MP3 pricing gives us a glimpse into the strategy around H.264 licensing and what the landscape might look like 5 years from now, assuming H.264 were baked into the web platform as a requirement," ...

Google's video codec has significant support, but building it into the standard language for Web pages would advance its fortunes significantly. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

The battle for the future of Web video has been nothing if not confusing, and it isn't over yet. MPEG-LA, the industry group responsible for various audio and video formats, announced that it'll keep ...

Internet Explorer 11 is being packed into and rolled out with Windows 8.1, though you can already check out a pre-release version in the Windows 8.1 Developer Preview as well as on Windows 7. Should ...