The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), a group of technology experts formed to create new digital standards for audio and video compression, has a rich history when it comes to creating formats that ...

Known as H.264, among other designations, the new format is turning heads over claims that it can deliver DVD-quality broadcasts over the Internet using considerably fewer network resources than ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Google Inc. and MPEG LA, LLC announced today that they have entered into agreements granting Google a license to techniques that may be essential to VP8 and earlier-generation ...

Once upon time, video codecs and formats were really only the concern of AV nerds, anime freaks and hardcore not-so-legal movie downloaders. Now, even the most part-time of geeks has to deal with them ...

The Motion Pictures Expert Group has issued a new video standards draft that promises to deliver twice the video quality at the same size, or alternatively, identical video quality at half the data ...

The Blu-ray Disc Association said in early September that it would add high-level video compression systems from Microsoft and MPEG to the format's specifications, allowing programmers to pack more ...

In the course of my research I have to deal with dozens of Gigabytes of data produced by various 2-D computer simulations. Typically, such data comes from a rectangular grid and is stored in a file in ...