TV Technology

MPEG-4 secrets

Figure 4b shows that an MPEG-4 encoder can handle the graphic instructions directly so that the rendering engine is actually in the MPEG-4 decoder. Once the appearance of objects is established in the ...
CNET

MPEG-4 rival raises antitrust specter

Video-compression provider On2 Technologies is taking a swing at MPEG-4, complaining that companies cooperating to create a digital media standard may run afoul of antitrust laws. New York-based On2 ...
TV Technology

MPEG-4 compression: A look at the benefits

As broadcasters look to the future, many are concerned about the development of even newer compression schemes. While new compression technologies may offer additional benefits, there is the trade-off ...
Ars Technica

MPEG-4: What is it really?

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. Here are the facts as I know them. The people who brought us ...
CNET

RealNetworks to support MPEG-4

RealNetworks on Monday said it will support a new open standard for digital video and audio in a surprise move that could pave the way for greater interoperability in the notoriously fragmented ...
EDN

MPEG-4 AVC vs. MPEG-2: For now, tradition holds sway

It may seem obvious that the many merits of the MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard will render the industry-changing MPEG-2 standard obsolete, but there is plenty of life left in the ...
ZDNet

Steve Jobs: MPEG-4 is the next big thing

Is MPEG-4 video technology the next big thing? Apple Computer's Steve Jobs thinks so. On Tuesday the company released a public preview of QuickTime 6, Apple's proprietary media player. What was ...
ZDNet

Apple shuns MPEG-4 licensing terms

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GSM Arena

MPEG-4 video - definition

MPEG-4 is one of the latest video/audio compression method standardized by MPEG group, designed specially for low-bandwidth (less than 1.5MBit/sec bitrate) video/audio encoding purposes. MPEG-4 is ...
EDN

Decoding MPEG 4

Imagine watching Gladiator— not in the movie theater but over an Internet protocol (IP) network on a Web-enabled device. Very possibly you conjure up an image of herky-jerky video, but consider that ...
Linux Journal

Streaming MPEG-4 with Linux

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 ...