Previous
MessageLabs: Watch Out For Audio And Video Spam
News The voice was synthesised using a low compression rate of 16KHz to keep the overall file size small, at around 50KB, in order to avoid detection. As image spam shifts from email attachments to images on free image-hosting sites, [we] believe that...
[October 30, 2007, 14:41]
China Rejects Western Mpeg Format
News China will have its own audio-video compression standard, as part of moves to shift reliance away from Western formats. Mpeg-1 compression used in the video CD (VCD) format common throughout Asia, while Mpeg-2 is used on DVDs.
[August 1, 2003, 10:25]
Open Video Capture
Downloads It can set video compression codec and audio compression codec, output frame size and frame rate. It supports open compression system for video and audio. It encodes AVI files with DIVX, XVID, Windows Media Audio, and Video Codec, DV Video Encoder.
[March 18, 2008, 8:46]
DivX Plots Course To Block Pirates
News Video compression provider DivXNetworks has teamed with the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics to develop a system to protect digital video and audio from copyright violations. DivXNetworks created the DivX format, a video-compression...
[April 5, 2002, 10:49]
Open Video Converter
Downloads The application changes the frame size, frame rate, video-compression codec, and audio-compression codec. The key features include converting MPEG, WMV, ASF, MPG, VCD, OGM, DAT, and SVCD files to AVI; encoding AVI with DivX and XviD; splitting a...
[March 18, 2008, 8:46]
RealNetworks Signs 3G Deal
News A new deal will let RealNetworks offer content providers and wireless carriers the ability to use the MPEG-4 compression standard to stream audio and video to next-generation cell phones and other mobile devices.
[November 5, 2002, 7:57]
O2™ Workstation Digital Media White Paper
White Papers An extremely high-bandwidth memory architecture, dedicated engines for image and video processing, and a suite of digital media tools give the SGI® O2 workstation unrivaled capabilities for digital media creation and manipulation, including video...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Windows Media 8 Shrinks The Streams
News Microsoft released Windows Media version 8 Wednesday, a compression technology that lets companies encode high-quality audio and video into smaller packages. This compares with Windows Media 7, which required a compression rate of 750Kbits for near...
[March 29, 2001, 8:47]
Adobe Brings High Definition To Flash Videos
News Silverlight supports Windows Media Audio and Video and another video compression standard based on Windows Media called VC-1. It will support HE-AAC version 2, a more efficient audio compression standard that is also part of MPEG 4.
[August 21, 2007, 8:37]
Video Format Turns To Open-source Developers For Aid
News But On2 is facing a powerful challenger in the standards arena: MPEG-4, a next-generation compression format for video and audio and the successor of technologies behind the MP3 audio explosion. Video-compression provider On2 Technologies plans to...
[June 24, 2002, 8:42]
RealNetworks: MPEG-4 Could Be DOA
News Meanwhile, the company on Wednesday backed the new standard by launching a site that promotes interoperability between different codecs, or video and audio compression and decompression technology. Proposed licensing fees for MPEG-4, a next...
[April 26, 2002, 8:43]
Microsoft Eases Digital Media Licensing
News By adding a licence for the audio and video compression software, or codecs, of Windows Media 9, Microsoft is extending the technology beyond its Windows operating system, where the software is available for free.
[January 7, 2003, 8:43]
CyberLink PowerEncoder MPEG-4 AVC Edition
Downloads Video quality and advanced compression: with MPEG-4 AVC achieving substantial superiority of video quality over that of previous compression standards, PowerEncoder delivers higher quality video even at low bit rates.
[October 25, 2006, 11:46]
Companies Fear Costly MPEG-4 Licences
News I don't think (the fees) are commercially viable," said Douglas McIntyre, chief executive of On2 Technologies, a video-compression provider. In a letter sent to ISMA on Friday, New York-based On2 proposed making its video-compression technology, or...
[February 11, 2002, 10:50]
Speedy Net Video Codec Done, But Late
News The technical design of a compression technology that promises to stream video over the Internet at DVD-worthy speeds has been completed, according to the international standards team developing it. The new compression technology has demonstrated...
[December 19, 2002, 11:00]
Digital Is Key For Broadcasting Conference
News Conference-goers will also see practical applications of new video-compression technology such as MPEG-4, a recently released standard that backers say improves fourfold on the established format for the delivery of video and audio files.
[April 8, 2002, 14:36]
Linux Firms Adopt Open-source Media Player
News Over the last year, it has released the source code for its Helix video and audio compression technology and Helix DNA media servers, which support file formats including MPEG-4 and Windows Media. Sony, for example, licensed Helix servers and audio...
[June 28, 2004, 16:45]
MP3: You Can't Stop The Music ...
News The dominant compression scheme at the time, JPEG or Joint Photographics Expert Group, was only used for still images, and it couldn't handle the compression of high-quality movies or audio. The same three organisations -- MPEG, ISO, and ITEC...
[April 10, 2000, 8:26]
Think Napster -- Only For Movies
News The compression algorithm (often referred to as a "codec") simply slaps together Microsoft's latest video compression technology, the third revision of MPEG4, and the MP3 audio compression technology.
[May 12, 2000, 15:27]
Firefox Gets Multimedia Plugin
News In addition, according to Pfeiffer, while Theora does not have as high a compression ration as MPEG4, it is "quality wise as good as the MPEG2 format," and only "one level of quality behind the top-level compression codecs".
[February 11, 2005, 8:40]
