When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the advantages of digital video is that it can be compressed and transported in an MPEG ...

The “world spinning out of control” category swells by the day and often gets good stories from the arena of intellectual property. Several years ago, my favorite was the Green Bay Packers, who became ...

The Federal Communications Commission is hoping MPEG-4 can do the heavy lifting in bringing an end to ATSC 1.0. On Oct. 7, the commission published on its website a draft notice of proposed rulemaking ...

With the submission of a committee draft, the successor to MPEG-4 has reached a new standardization milestone, with a final standard due to be set in January 2013. With the submission of a committee ...

Editors' Note: This article has been updated since its original posting. Seven years ago, when I was still a clueless kid, I played my first video clip on the Internet using a 56k connection. It was ...

When the WebM project was announced back in 2010, one its selling points was that it was open and free of the licensing needs imposed by competitors like H.264. That may have been slightly overstated, ...

MPEG LA, the self-styled one stop shop for motion video patent licenses, says that 12 different companies have come forward with patents “essential” to the VP8 algorithm championed by Google as a ...

MPEG-2 patent expiration opens door for royalty-free use Your email has been sent Building a slide deck, pitch, or presentation? Here are the big takeaways: The last patent for the MPEG-2 video codec ...

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), one of the international standards for compressing video and audio, has standards such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. Of these, MPEG-2 is mainly used for TV ...

So, for today, here's what we know. First, as pointed out yesterday, you can view a summary of the Patent Portfolio License or download the official Briefing. I spoke with Bill Geary, MPEG LA vice ...

I want to join the next generation of video codecs, MPEG-4, for my video projects, but I'm hopelessly confused and Google isn't helping me.<BR><BR>Here are the facts as I know them. The people who ...