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MainConcept and Fraunhofer IIS Partner to Enhance Live Encoder and FFmpeg Plugins with Immersive Audio Support

by Shawnee Blackwood

Fraunhofer IIS, developer of the xHE-AAC and MPEG-H Audio codecs, has partnered with MainConcept, a leading provider of video and audio codecs, plugins, and applications. MainConcept’s Live Encoder and FFmpeg Plugins now support Fraunhofer’s …

Tags:AAC| Fraunhofer| MainConcept| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)

Mid-week Links – Week Ending 14th October 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the middle of this week. I will be trying to squeeze in a …

Good Online Guide to Codecs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Codec consultant, Jan Ozer (I’m sure I have one of his books from many years ago, somewhere..) has published an introductory guide to different codecs. What We Think This is a …

Hisense Enters Into MPEG LA’s AVC Patent Portfolio License

by Artem Alekseenko

MPEG LA announced that Hisense International Co., Ltd. (“Hisense”) has become a Licensee to MPEG LA’s AVC Patent Portfolio License (“AVC License”). As a result of this agreement, all legal disputes related to patent …

Tags:Hisense| MPEG| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)| Patents

TCL Enters into MPEG LA’s AVC Patent Portfolio License

by Artem Alekseenko

MPEG LA announced that TCL Electronics Holdings Limited (“TCL”) has become a Licensee to MPEG LA’s AVC Patent Portfolio License (“AVC License”). As a result of this agreement, all legal disputes related to patent …

Tags:Licensing| MPEG| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)| Patents| TCL

Confused about Video CODECs?

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Video compression has been an integral part of video since its inception before World War II. All consumer video and almost all professional video is compressed because the data files associated even with standard …

Tags:Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)

Italy to Switch Over from MPEG-2 Format to MPEG-4 from 2020

by Andrew Fenn

Italy will switch from MPEG-2 coding to MPEG-4 on the DVB-T standard from January 1st, 2020 as part of its plan to free up the 700MHz frequency band for high-speed mobile internet. Following a …

US Military Launches HD STB with Inview Middleware

by Andrew Fenn

Inview Technology, the UK-based broadcast and OTT software and service specialist, and DigitalGlue, a systems integrator, equipment provider and software developer for the production and distribution of digital video, have today announced the launch …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 46

Google Will No Longer Let Apple Users Enjoy YouTube in 4K Quality

by Alan Spencer

In the future, watching UltraHD on YouTube will require support for Google’s VP9 codec, which Apple has so far not supported. For a decade, content providers have used MPEG4 (and its sub-classes such as …

CAST introduces Ultra HD-capable video compression cores

by Isaac Oburu

Semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. recently introduced the newest generation in its eighteen-year-long series of IP cores for video and image compression. The new 2016 Video and Image Compression Cores Family includes encoders …

Tags:Encoders| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)

Russia’s NTV-Plus to Embrace MPEG-4

by Isaac Oburu

Russian satellite TV operator NTV-Plus has announced that it plans to convert all of its remaining MPEG-2 channels to MPEG-4 between the 3rd of March and the 25th of June this year.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MPEG 2| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)| Russia| Vol 23 - Issue 05

France Allocates Budget for MPEG Switch

by Tom Allen

ANFR, the French communications regulator, has allocated an €82 million budget, to help viewers migrate from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 AVC on the DTT platform. The switch must occur before the 5th April. It is …

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| MPEG 2| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)| Vol 22 - Issue 49