MPEG LA has announced plans to extend the duration of no-cost h264 licensing for free Internet video until 2016. This move lifts some of the immediate ambiguity about h264 licensing and will allow the ...

In the old days, the codec pack for movie playback was badly behaved, and on the contrary there was something like going to be stupid because the movie that was playable until now can not be played ...

While VP8, Google's initial attempt at a royalty-free video codec, failed to gain much traction, the search giant is now focusing its efforts on ultra-high-resolution 4K video with its new VP9 codec, ...

The following blogpost originally appeared on Florian Mueller's Fosspatents blog. Mueller has been following the ups and downs of software patents on the web closely for a long time. Here's his latest ...

Protocol reports that Qualcomm will finally jump on the AV1 video codec bandwagon next year. AV1 is the web’s next open, royalty-free video codec, and widespread adoption will require hardware support ...

Now that the patents for the popular MP3 audio codec have expired, it’s unlikely that the format is going anywhere, despite many reports that misinterpreted what the end of the format’s licensing ...

At its annual I/O conference, Google has unveiled its plan to release a video codec it acquired as a royalty free alternative to the ISO MPEG's H.264. Google was joined by Mozilla and Opera as browser ...

Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer. Also available in Gemini. THE Monkey’s Audio Codec Becomes Free and Open Source Software. Beginning with version 10.18, according to the author, the “Monkey ...

Over the past few years H.264 has become a de facto standard for delivering high-quality videos with relatively small file sizes. It’s proven a popular format for delivering internet video and many of ...