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Logitech has just announced that it has joined forces with Skype to deliver the world’s first webcam for businesses that can transmit Full HD 180p video at 30fps using on-board H.264 compression for optimizing the data packets sent out.In order to activate the H.264 hardware encoding in the camera, users have t... |
19 January 2012
11:02 GMT |
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AVerMedia has just announced the introduction of a new PCI Express capture card designed especially to be used by PC and console gamers in order to record their in-game achievements without having to rely of software capture apps or other more outrageous solutions.The capture card is called the Game Broadcaster HD an... |
30 November 2011
07:43 GMT |
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Google is taking steps in protecting the freedom of its WebM project, the open source web video format. The company is offering the technology under an open license, but there are threats of a patent pool being formed which would try to get companies using WebM to pay for a license. Google has now created the WebM Co... |
28 April 2011
11:00 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 9 enables users to watch HTML5 video encoded with the industry-standard H.264 format out of the box, but also offers support for WebM, an emerging technology introduced by Google, with support from Mozilla, Opera, Adobe, etc. As IE9 RTW downloads went live earlier this week, Google released the Web... |
17 March 2011
10:51 GMT |
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The battle between Google and the MPEG LA group took an interesting turn now that the US Department of Justice has taken an interest in the actions of the group. The DoJ is investigating whether the MPEG LA, which moved to create a patent pool for Google's free WebM video format and the accompanying V8 video cod... |
7 March 2011
10:42 GMT |
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The inevitable has happened, the MPEG LA is reaching out to stakeholders for the forming of a VP8 patent pool. VP8 is part of WebM, an open video format released by Google. WebM and the VP8 codec come with an open-source license and are supposed to be patent free. However, the licensing group behind VP8's major ... |
12 February 2011
07:27 GMT |
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Microsoft is doing what Google won’t, namely support H.264 on Chrome.
After Google announced recently that its open source browser will no longer play nice with the H.264 video format, the Redmond company is now making sure that Chrome users that want the choice to play H.264 encoded HTML5 video, will be a... |
2 February 2011
10:28 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering an update designed to allow Internet Explorer 9 users running the browser on top of Windows Server 2008 R2 to enjoy additional content on the web, even if it’s coded with H.264 and AAC. The default configuration of Windows Server 2008 R2 doesn’t allow customers to play H.264 video f... |
26 January 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Google's move of dropping support for the proprietary H.264 video codec in Google Chrome has certainly managed to get a huge debate going. While Google's choice of 'open' technologies is admirable in theory, critics say that, in practical terms, it will only serve to make HTML5 even less attractiv... |
12 January 2011
07:06 GMT |
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Google is making a bold move and has announced that it will be dropping support for the controversial H.264 video codec in Google Chrome in the next couple of months. Codecs have been at the heart of a heated dispute around video content support in the proposed HTML5 standard. On the one side, Mozilla and Opera suppo... |
12 January 2011
03:41 GMT |
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Microsoft’s interoperability work related to modern web standards is in no way limited to Internet Explorer 9. An illustrative example in this regard is the fact that the Redmond company worked to make Firefox a tad friendlier to a video codec that IE9 supports by default in the context of HTML5, but Mozilla i... |
15 December 2010
11:34 GMT |
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MPEG LA has announced that it is extending the royalty free license for its H.264 video codec for the duration of the license. What this means is that websites can continue to use the codec for non-commercial applications for free."MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue not to cha... |
26 August 2010
16:19 GMT |
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Mac users looking to get H.264 hardware acceleration out of Flash Player are no longer required to download the Adobe Labs Flash Player Gala Beta edition, the San Jose, California-based software vendor has revealed in an update.According to the release notes for Flash Player 10.1.82.76, Adobe has included the h... |
11 August 2010
03:33 GMT |
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Dubbed "Works with HTML5," the brand-new release of FFmpeg brings lots of highly anticipated features. Announced last evening, June 15th, FFmpeg 0.6 improves the support for HTML5 video, has a better Vorbis decoder, and faster Theora and H.264 decoders. The most important feature of this release is the support for Go... |
16 June 2010
06:45 GMT |
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Adobe has confirmed the availability of Flash Player 10.1 for Mac OS X. The company has also said that Flash Player 10.1 is on its way to Android devices, and that Adobe AIR 2 runtime is now available for download for devs looking to deploy applications built for AIR 2 on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Talking about t... |
11 June 2010
05:24 GMT |
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Among the many announcements expected at this year’s Google I/O developer conference starting later today, one is of particular interest for HTML5 video. The tech company is rumored to open-source the VP8 codec created by On2, a company acquired by Google earlier in the year. New details are starting to pop up ... |
19 May 2010
10:23 GMT |
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With the open source nature of Mozilla Firefox, it was bound to happen sooner or later, a developer has started work on a fork of the popular web browser, which will include support for the H.264 codec. Dubbed Wild Fox, the project is in the very early stages and is aimed at the many countries where software patents ... |
17 May 2010
06:09 GMT |
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HTML5 has been at the center of a heated argument in the recent months and it’s only getting worse. Specifically, it’s HTML5-based video that is raising spirits when pitted against Adobe’s Flash Player. Apple has notoriously refused to include Flash on the iPhone and iPad and had some very harsh wor... |
14 May 2010
06:31 GMT |
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In the week that preceded the launch of Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 2, Dean Hachamovitch, Internet Explorer general manager, started a very interesting discussion about video codecs for HTML5 in the context of IE8’s successor. However, version 1.9.7.7.66.6000 of Windows Internet Explorer Platform Previ... |
7 May 2010
03:46 GMT |
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Microsoft’s announcement that Internet Explorer 9 will support the H.264 exclusively as the codec for HTML5 has stirred up consistent interest in the few days since it was shared with the public. Sufficiently consistent for Dean Hachamovitch, IE GM, to provide a follow-up. The Redmond company is not permanently... |
3 May 2010
12:51 GMT |
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The final piece of the puzzle in the HTML5 <video> debate has been put in place, Microsoft has announced that it plans to support only the H.264 video codec in the upcoming Internet Explorer 9. IE was the last major browser that hadn’t chosen a side in the ‘war’ yet, though Microsoft&rsquo... |
30 April 2010
21:31 GMT |
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When Internet Explorer 9 was introduced in mid-March 2010, Microsoft promised that support for HTML5 <video> would be added in a future release. In fact, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager, Internet Explorer, demonstrated an upcoming development Build of IE9 featuring HTML5 <video> support at MIX1... |
30 April 2010
03:52 GMT |
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Following Apple’s move to open APIs for developers looking to tap into hardware-accelerated video, Adobe Systems Incorporated has released a preview of the 10.1 Flash Player for Mac OS X. The software supports H.264 video hardware decoding on the third revision to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.3). Tech sites aro... |
29 April 2010
05:27 GMT |
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Blu-ray, as the winner of short HD video format wars, is starting to become increasingly popular. Blu-ray players are cheaper than ever and widely available and there is plenty of content available, Hollywood blockbusters, TV shows and more. But for the ‘average Joe’ video maker, Blu-ray is still a pipe d... |
28 April 2010
05:22 GMT |
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Michael Tsai, a Mac software developer, has found that Apple opened some APIs for developers looking to tap into hardware-accelerated video. It is exactly what Adobe wanted, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber signals. Apple’s stance on Flash (a CPU hog) is likely to be unchanged. Having lost one battle with Ap... |
23 April 2010
09:10 GMT |
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Google may be making one eagerly anticipated move that should usher in a new era for HTML5 and online video at large. The company is now expected to release the VP8 video codec as open source, offering a third viable option for HTM5-based video streaming along with the proprietary H.264 and the existing open-source a... |
13 April 2010
07:25 GMT |
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HTML5 video got a big boost a couple of weeks ago when both YouTube and Vimeo introduced support for the feature, to a certain degree. While the move was heralded as a big win for the proposed HTML5 standard, most people still couldn’t take advantage of the features. The issue is the choice of video codecs the ... |
4 February 2010
12:45 GMT |
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The Avidemux developers announced on Saturday (February 8th, 2009) the fourth point release of the Avidemux 2.4 branch. This bugfix version is probably the last one from the 2.4.x series, as the developers will concentrate their attention on the upcoming 2.5 and 2.6 branches. While the Avidemux 2.5 will be a bi... |
10 February 2009
07:00 GMT |
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The International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) 2008 in Amsterdam will act as the stage where Microsoft plans to showcase the new high-definition video capabilities of Silverlight. The Redmond company's Adobe Flash killer will deliver in future versions support for the H.264 and AAC file formats. Scott Guthrie, ... |
10 September 2008
07:27 GMT |
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Adobe Labs announced yesterday yet another prerelease version of their award winning Flash Player 9 Update software, for Linux, Windows and Macintosh. This new beta version brings a lot of features and improvements over the previous releases, such as:￭ Support for H.264 video and HE-AAC audio codecs.￭ M... |
2 October 2007
02:59 GMT |
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Adobe Labs announced yesterday yet another prerelease version of their award winning Flash Player 9 Update software, for Linux, Windows and Macintosh. This beta version brings new features and improvements over the previous releases, such as:￭ Support for H.264 video and HE-AAC audio codecs.￭ Support fo... |
22 August 2007
09:59 GMT |
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High-Definition is a domain as exciting as it is complex, since the increasing number of standards and formats is making most people scratch their heads in puzzlement. Fujitsu's engineers must have scratched their heads too at some point and have decided to end all the madness and confusion with the release of t... |
21 May 2007
09:28 GMT |
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When it comes to offering products that can do more than one single task, the video cards are pretty much today's champions. Compared to the multi-core architecture of current CPU's, these require additional processing units to stream multiple threads of information properly. But since NVIDIA came out wit... |
30 April 2007
06:27 GMT |
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If you wanted to get a HDTV LCD which has a dedicated built-in MPEG4 AVC (H.264) HD decoder and DVB-T tuner, then Singapore is the place to be. This is where Samsung announced Full HD IDTV M8 LCD TV, a truly mobile HDTV measuring only 40, 46 or 52-inches in diagonal. The line of products can stream audio-video conten... |
26 April 2007
09:49 GMT |
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These speculations have been circulating the Web since columnist Robert X. Cringely wrote for PBS a piece about a rumor he believes to be a fact, according to which the Cupertino based company is willing to take the bold step of introducing H.264 hardware decoding in all their lines of computers, even for Mac Minis. ... |
10 March 2007
06:35 GMT |
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