When we asked our faithful readers what technological advances had made the biggest difference to their lives, Prospero424 stepped up to the plate to deliver a humdinger: video compression. To ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA.—The MPEG-2 compression algorithm is an integral part of the ATSC 1.0 broadcast standard. These are the digital rules that govern today’s HDTV transmissions in the United States and ...

Stockholm, Sweden-based Popwire on Tuesday announced that it is shipping Compression Engine 2, a digital media encoding system for broadcasters, media companies and others. Compression Engine 2 runs ...

Digital video currently follows the MPEG-2 standard, but improvements in image processing technology are set to move MPEG-4 to the forefront of video compression. Millions of DVD disks, satellite ...

The new series, which consists of two devices, the MB86H01 AA and MB86H01 AB, supports the DVB(*3) broadcasting standard used in these regions, and features MPEG-2 and H.264 decoders integrated into ...

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 ...

Chip maker Cirrus Logic Inc. announced it will acquire Stream Machine Co., makers of MPEG-2 video recording system-on-chips, for $110 million in stock. Cirrus, which makes analog and digital signal ...

Digital Video is large. Really large. A professional quality HD studio video camera produces just over a gigabit every second (1 Gb/s) when making the kind of video we currently show on BBC HD (which ...

i just got myself a very sweet Panasonic RV 31 DVD player and tried out it's VCD capabilities. i used the Toast Titanium VCD iMovie plugin for output and found some issues. <P>-iMovie transitions ...