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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 ...

[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 ...

H.264 has so far carried a flat annual cap of $100,000 for large subscription platforms. That may sound like a lot, but for ...

H.264 is the latest official video compression standard, which follows from the highly successful MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video standards and offers improvements in both video quality and compression. The ...

In the ever-evolving world of technology and video capture and formats, new standards often appear to enhance our digital lives. A good example of this is the high-performance file formats and codecs ...

MUNICH, Germany—Cinegy has released the latest version of its Cinecoder video codec software-development kit (SDK), which addresses a problem that’s faced the TV and broadcast industries since NVIDIA ...

CHENGDU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Digiarty Software today announced the latest release of its free and popular video converter – WinX Video Converter. The new version further improves the output ...

Using 4:2:2 10-bit encoding has become the de facto standard for professional video because it is captured and transmitted over SDI, allowing the entire production chain to use at least a 10-bit ...

H.264 streaming fees rise to $4.5 million in 2026, increasing costs for new OTT, social, and cloud gaming platforms worldwide ...

The signs are everywhere. Starting with IBC2004 in Amsterdam in early September, where Apple showed off an H.264 codec that yielded much better results than it did even at its impressive NAB debut, ...

The battle for the future of Web video has been nothing if not confusing, and it isn’t over yet. MPEG LA, the industry group responsible for various audio and video formats, announced that it’ll keep ...