In the world of video codecs, ProRes and H.264 are two names that often come up. Both are widely used in the industry, but they serve different purposes and offer different advantages. In this guide, ...

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 ...

Is there an app that can split an H.264 file? I know it's not an editing format, but I simple want to break a file up into multiple pieces. Doesn't have to be all that accurate either (say within 20 ...

Matrox Video Products Group today announced Matrox CompressHD™, the first implementation of Matrox MAX™ technology in an H.264 accelerator card for the Mac or PC, priced at just $495 US. Matrox MAX ...

This article appears in the August/September issue of Streaming Media magazine. Click here for your free subscription. If you produce Windows Media files, your encoder is working with code supplied by ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adobe, maker of the Flash Media Server and its associated ubiquitous player, has announced that it will support the H.264 format. I know what you're thinking — I lost you at "H." I mean, seriously, ...

I've got Windows Media Player 12 on windows 7 Home Premium, and I'm having trouble playing certain .avi files. They're encoded in h.264 and will play fine in VLC media player, but in WMP they play the ...