SourceSecurity

Does enhanced H.264 compression remain the best encoding for video surveillance?

Video compression technology has been a crucial element in surveillance system design since the advent of Internet Protocol (IP) in the 1990s. Since that time, standards for video encoding have been ...
EDN

Emerging H.264 standard supports broadcast video encoding

The adoption of digital video in many applications has been fuelled by the development of many video coding standards, which have emerged targeting different application areas. These standards provide ...
No Jitter

Reports on Availability of H.264 Hardware Encoding Greatly Exaggerated

TrueConf tested H.264 hardware implementations and Android mobile devices came up short. One of the recent discussions in our industry concerns which one of the two modern video codecs – H.264 or VP8 ...
Design-Reuse

Ultra-Low Latency H.264 Video Encoding Now Available from CAST

Latency is the delay incurred in processing and transmitting live video. Having a negligible delay of under 150 milliseconds (4.5 frames for 30 frames per second video) is critical in applications ...
CNET

SkypeのiPhoneアプリが「H.264」に対応--Skype対応テレビとのビデオ通話 ...

VoIP通話サービスのSkypeは、米国時間2月10日のVerizon版「iPhone」発売に間に合わせる形で、自社のiPhoneアプリケーションをアップデートし、「H.264」ビデオフォーマットのサポートを開始した。H.264は、HD動画のエンコーディング規格として現在最も普及している。
Streaming Media Magazine

H.264 Encoding: Four Free (or Cheap) Encoders Compared

OK, so you're cheap and in a hurry and you just want the answer to a single question, "What's the best free H.264 encoder?" Well, you're in the right place, in this short review; I compare HandBreak, ...
Design-Reuse

Mitsubishi demonstrates H.264 encoding

OFUNA, Japan — Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has demonstrated real-time H.264 encoding with a general purpose DSP during an open house earlier this week at its Information Technology R&D Center in Ofuna, ...
Advanced Television

Cinegy unlocks H.264 interlace encoding on Nvidia GPUs

Cinegy has announced the release of a new version of its Cinecoder video codec SDK, solving a fundamental problem for TV and broadcast industries. The H.264 interlace video format is globally used for ...
CNET

グーグル、「Chrome」での「H.264」サポートを打ち切りへ

ビデオエンコーディング技術「WebM」を擁するGoogleは米国時間1月11日、WebMと競合し、広く利用されているコーデック「H.264」のChromeでのサポートを中止する計画を発表した。AppleやMicrosoftはH.264を支持している。これによりGoogleは、基本的なウェブ技術が特許 ...
EDN

Mitsubishi demonstrates H.264 encoding

OFUNA, Japan &#151 Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has demonstrated real-time H.264 encoding with a general purpose DSP during an open house earlier this week at its Information Technology R&D Center in ...
CNET

Is H.264 a legal minefield for video pros?

Some think license terms for the popular video encoding technology mean Apple's Final Cut Pro should be called Final Cut Hobbyist. Not so fast. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...