Existing licensees are grandfathered.

[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 ...

Some think license terms for the popular video encoding technology mean Apple's Final Cut Pro should be called Final Cut Hobbyist. Not so fast. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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.

H.264 is the latest official video compression standard, which follows from the highly successful MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video standards and offers improvements in both video quality and compression. The ...

In the ever-evolving world of technology and video capture and formats, new standards often appear to enhance our digital lives. A good example of this is the high-performance file formats and codecs ...

H.264 has so far carried a flat annual cap of $100,000 for large subscription platforms. That may sound like a lot, but for ...

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 signs are everywhere. Starting with IBC2004 in Amsterdam in early September, where Apple showed off an H.264 codec that yielded much better results than it did even at its impressive NAB debut, ...

Using 4:2:2 10-bit encoding has become the de facto standard for professional video because it is captured and transmitted over SDI, allowing the entire production chain to use at least a 10-bit ...

H.264 streaming fees rise to $4.5 million in 2026, increasing costs for new OTT, social, and cloud gaming platforms worldwide ...

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 ...