“We’ve met a lot of the concerns that have been expressed in the marketplace,” said Lawrence Horn, spokesman for the group, which represents 18 patent holders that have claims on underlying MPEG-4 ...

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, ...

Figure 4b shows that an MPEG-4 encoder can handle the graphic instructions directly so that the rendering engine is actually in the MPEG-4 decoder. Once the appearance of objects is established in the ...

The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA)–a global group of companies including Apple Computer, Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems–formulated steps to advance MPEG-4 into its final stages. MPEG-4 ...

As broadcasters look to the future, many are concerned about the development of even newer compression schemes. While new compression technologies may offer additional benefits, there is the trade-off ...

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 ...

Dick Tracy's watch, back in the 1950s, allowed the comic strip detective to make phone calls from his wrist. Sure, he had a limited number of people he could call, but anyone watching him do it was ...

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 ...

Editors' Note: This article has been updated since its original posting. Seven years ago, when I was still a clueless kid, I played my first video clip on the Internet using a 56k connection. It was ...

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 ...

An Internet streaming group on Tuesday endorsed a licensing plan for MPEG-4 audio compression, sidestepping controversy that has erupted around a highly anticipated sister video technology put forward ...