Considering just picture compression, MPEG-4 does slightly better than MPEG-2, but not sufficiently better to warrant obsoleting the latter. MPEG-2 is well established in broadcast production and ...
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 ...
Is MPEG-4 video technology the next big thing? Apple Computer's Steve Jobs thinks so. On Tuesday the company released a public preview of QuickTime 6, Apple's proprietary media player. What was ...
RealNetworks on Monday said it will support a new open standard for digital video and audio in a surprise move that could pave the way for greater interoperability in the notoriously fragmented ...
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 ...
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 ...
Coming so soon after MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4 raises a number of questions. Will it replace MPEG-2? Does it make existing equipment obsolete? How does it affect the broadcast industry? To answer ...