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, ...

A newly proposed MPEG-4 licensing plan is sending jitters through multimedia circles, raising cost concerns about a new standard that promises to bring powerful interactive features to digital video.

Some MPEG-4 backers praised the licensing plan for removing lingering uncertainty over the costs of implementing the new format, but others said a proposed per-minute streaming fee, equivalent to 2 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stations wanting to convert to ATSC 3.0 have had trouble finding an ATSC 1.0 home for their high-definition (HD) and standard-definition (SD) streams. Using MPEG-4 (AVC) for ATSC 1.0 has been tried ...

MPEG4 is finally starting to gain some traction. The allure of platform and vendor independence and ubiquitous players on all kinds of devices is strong. But in many areas, MPEG4 is still a ...

Right now, I'm curious about video compression and why most DVD-ripping guides recommend you encode using DivX/XviD/other MPEG-4 encoder at 1Mbps. From what I know, DVD-Video is already compressed ...

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 ...