At its January meeting in Pisa, Italy, the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) finished and approved an extension to MPEG-4 video coding. This enhancement uses fine granular scalability as well as the ...

Yesterday, Apple released a preview version of QuickTime 6 that supports MPEG-4, a new standard for rich media on the Internet. Despite QuickTime 6’s release, Apple still hasn’t worked out all of the ...

A newly proposed MPEG-4 licensing plan is sending jitters through multimedia circles, raising cost concerns about a new standard that promises to bring powerful interactive features to digital video.

Motorola, the No. 2 mobile phone maker, has acquired Modulus Video, a private Sunnyvale, Calif. company for an undisclosed amount. See announcement here. Modulus Video offers MPEG-4 Advanced Video ...

Managing IP sat down with Nokia’s head of multimedia technologies, Ville-Veikko Mattila, to discuss the cutting-edge applications of Versatile Video Coding, and the societal challenges that could be ...

Greetings from NAB in Las Vegas, which has expanded into much more than a “broadcasting” convention — at least judging by all the buzz here regarding Microsoft's VC-1 codec, set top boxes, and other ...

BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Media Coding Industry Forum (MC-IF) welcomes the completion of Versatile Video Coding (VVC). VVC is a new video coding standard with improved compression ...