The MPEG Licensing Authority has indefinitely extended the royalty-free Internet broadcasting licensing of its H.264 video codec to end users. The move erases a key advantage of Google’s WebM rival ...
AMSTERDAM — Does the world need yet another video codec? BBC made a strong case that it does, at the International Broadcast Conference (IBC) this week, pitching a new compression family called Dirac ...
NEW YORK—The compression algorithm at the center of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” has put a spotlight on an important part of the life of the internet. Compression is necessary to make files smaller so they ...