Video Without Boundaries, based here, a developer of broadband media devices, recently unveiled its first portable media player designed to play back MPEG-4 video on the go. The company also announced ...

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Kinoma Inc. on Thursday released Kinoma Player 3 EX, the latest version of their multimedia player software for Palm OS 5-based handhelds. The new version of the software now ...

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.<BR><BR>Here are the facts as I know them. The people who ...

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 ...

The term streaming media is on everyone's lips today. While content providers are eager to boost revenues, potential users hope to download movies of their choice from the Web instead of driving to a ...

Although the battle cry of interoperability and openness has been uttered before, the streaming media landscape remains the near-exclusive domain of outstanding, but proprietary, architectures from ...

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 ...

MPEG LA, a group of patent holders governing MPEG-4, on Monday finalized licensing terms for the media delivery standard, bowing to market pressure for manageable royalty rates. "We've met a lot of ...

It may seem obvious that the many merits of the MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard will render the industry-changing MPEG-2 standard obsolete, but there is plenty of life left in the ...