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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Ars Technica

What to do with large HD h.264 transport stream (.ts) files?

NBA season is here again, and I am putting some of my new video capture equipment to use....although with some annoying issues. To do the capture, I am using a Hauppauge HD-PVR connected via component ...
TechSpot

Media Players and Video Formats: A Detailed Battery Life Analysis

Now that we've established there's an evident delta in efficiency among a small group of popular media players, it's time to look at formats. All the previous testing was performed using a H.264 video ...
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 ...
TechSpot

How to Encode HEVC: The Set-Up and Test Files

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 ...
TV Technology

H.264 Recording Capabilities Now Available for Video Devices' Pix-E Series

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. REEDSBURG, WI, MAY 26, 2016 — Video Devices, a brand of video products developed by Sound Devices ...
Business Wire

Blackmagic Design Announces New HyperDeck Shuttle HD

New desktop based HyperDeck recorder/player designed as the perfect clip player, includes support for H.264, Apple ProRes and DNx video formats. FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blackmagic Design ...
Hexus

DivX Announces Release of Next-Generation, H.264 Based DivX 7 Software

San Diego, CA– January 6, 2009 - DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX), a digital media company, today announced that the latest version of the Company’s flagship video software package, Version 7 of DivX® for ...
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 ...