Streaming Media Magazine

How to Produce High-Quality H.264 Video Files

H.264 is the only compression technology that plays on all computers, mobile devices, and OTT players. This makes producing high-quality H.264 files compatible with your target playback devices an ...
Streaming Media Magazine

First Look: H.264 and VP8 Compared

[In response to reader questions and comments, this article was updated at 6:20 a.m. on Monday, May 24. See author's comments at the end of the article.—Ed] VP8 is now free, but if the quality is ...
TV Technology

Matrox MAX H.264 Capture Ships, Enabling Direct Capture to H.264 Files with the Matrox MXO2 I/O Devices and Matrox MAX Technology for PC

Matrox Video Products today announced that Matrox MAX H.264 Capture is now available. Matrox MAX H.264 Capture is a stand-alone Windows application that lets users capture directly to H.264 files for ...
Security

Video: Fulfilling the Promise of H.264

H.264 is a buzzword throughout the industry. Since the first version of the H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 compression standard was released in 2003, there have been multiple revisions, improvements and ...
Ars Technica

Digging into new MacBook’s support of GPU-accelerated H.264

H.264 is designed to rock everything from your crummy little mobile phone to that HDTV you probably shouldn't have bought. As anyone who has played H.264 video on a Mac or PC will tell you, though, ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I let this free open-source tool optimize my Plex library and reclaimed 8TB of storage

Better than buying a drive in this economy ...
TV Technology

Matrox Introduces Direct Capture to H.264 Video Files for the Web, iPad, iPhone, and YouTube

Matrox Video Products will demonstrate direct capture from HDMI, SDI, and analog HD or SD video sources to H.264 files with the Matrox MXO2 devices and Matrox MAX technology for PC at IBC 2010 on the ...
TechSpot

Guide to HEVC/H.265 Encoding and Playback

Now that we've looked at how to playback HEVC-encoded files, it's time to create them. There are a whole collection of tools and utilities that can encode HEVC, but in this article I'm going to focus ...
HotHardware

DivX Releases H.264 Based DivX 7 Software

DivX, Inc. today announced that the latest version of the Company's flagship video software package, Version 7 of DivX(R) for Windows, is available for download on the company's newly redesigned ...
Ars Technica

Stable H.264 players for Windows

Over the last few weeks, I've encoded several DVDs to H.264 for my kids viewing pleasure on their computer. Her machine: Handbrake has several options, I'm using the H.264 output (why not?). On my Mac ...
Macworld

iSquint iPod video converter adds bigger H.264 files

Techspansion on Monday released iSquint 1.5, a new version of its freeware utility to convert video to a format and size suited to the iPod. iSquint 1.5 is available for download immediately. New to ...