The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) signed off on the audio licensing program, set by Dolby Laboratories, Nokia, AT&T, Sony and Fraunhofer IIS. Licensees who use MPEG-4 audio encoders or ...

The open-source multimedia world cleared a legal hurdle three decades in the making today: the final patent covering MPEG-4 Part 2 Visual — the codec behind DivX and Xvid — expired on July 19, 2026, ...

Figure 4b shows that an MPEG-4 encoder can handle the graphic instructions directly so that the rendering engine is actually in the MPEG-4 decoder. Once the appearance of objects is established in the ...

Nero Digital is the next generation in MPEG-4 compatible compression technology - with premium quality video coding algorithms and full High Efficiency AAC audio. Realize audio and video in DVD ...

The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA)–a global group of companies including Apple Computer, Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems–formulated steps to advance MPEG-4 into its final stages. MPEG-4 ...

As broadcasters look to the future, many are concerned about the development of even newer compression schemes. While new compression technologies may offer additional benefits, there is the trade-off ...

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 ...

Imagine watching Gladiator— not in the movie theater but over an Internet protocol (IP) network on a Web-enabled device. Very possibly you conjure up an image of herky-jerky video, but consider that ...

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. Here are the facts as I know them. The people who brought us ...

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 ...

At a company-sponsored conference Tuesday, Apple previewed the latest versions of its QuickTime digital media player and new QuickTime broadcast technology, both built with support for MPEG-4. But the ...