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 ...

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 ...

Dick Tracy's watch, back in the 1950s, allowed the comic strip detective to make phone calls from his wrist. Sure, he had a limited number of people he could call, but anyone watching him do it was ...

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.<BR><BR>Here are the facts as I know them. The people who ...

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 ...

There's no question that MPEG-4 is going to succeed MPEG-2 as the standard for streaming digital video. Faster processor speeds and cheap (already less than $200) video capture and playback cards will ...

Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

How does XviD compare to the newest AVC H.264 codec, which also has a chance of being included in HD-DVD? If i have a 4GB MPEG-4 file in XviD and AVC, which will have higher quality? I'm guessing AVC, ...

"If HLS were perfect, DASH would not exist," said Thierry Fautier, Harmonic's senior director of telco solutions, referring to Apple's proprietary HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol and the newer MPEG ...