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 ...

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 ...

As noted in our fifth-generation (with video) iPod coverage, several users are experiencing issues with synchronizing home-compressed video to the device. Many users reporting this problem are using ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The latest MPEG-4 product from Philips is the Streamium MX6000i Internet home entertainment system, which will be introduced early next year. MPEG-4 is a rather extensive set of definitions for the ...

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 ...

MPEG-4 is one of the latest video/audio compression method standardized by MPEG group, designed specially for low-bandwidth (less than 1.5MBit/sec bitrate) video/audio encoding purposes. MPEG-4 is ...

On Tuesday, the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA), an industry organization forged to ensure the technical success of standards in streaming, released to the public its first product, an ...

One common complaint users have about encoding video for their fifth-generation, video-capable iPods is that it takes a lot of time. Another issue is legality: Although there is software available ...