To make a long story short I need to mass convert some .264 files from a CCTV DVR unit to AVI's playing on any regular PC for our police department. My DVR's online software allows me to do this from ...

In the world of video codecs, ProRes and H.264 are two names that often come up. Both are widely used in the industry, but they serve different purposes and offer different advantages. In this guide, ...

H.264 is the only compression technology that plays on all computers, mobile devices, and OTT players. This makes producing high-quality H.264 files compatible with your target playback devices an ...

I have an h264-encoded file that is in an mkv container. Unfortunately, as nice as an open container format is, I have yet to find a player than can handle it as well as and avi or mp4 container. So, ...

Matrox Video Products Group today announced Matrox CompressHD™, the first implementation of Matrox MAX™ technology in an H.264 accelerator card for the Mac or PC, priced at just $495 US. Matrox MAX ...

This article appears in the August/September issue of Streaming Media magazine. Click here for your free subscription. If you produce Windows Media files, your encoder is working with code supplied by ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

At NAB2005, Nextamp demonstrated its new NexMaster’s system. It inserts a digital watermark into an MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoded file of HD content. NexMaster removed those limitations and inserted a ...

Use SpursEngine Plug-In to Upscale Standard Resolution Files or to Quickly Encode MPEG-2 and H.264 files to View Virtually Anywhere Pegasys, Inc. the company that makes digital video easy, has updated ...

For devices that can decode HEVC video, performance is a concern. As HEVC compresses video streams to a greater extent than H.264, it requires more processing power to decompress; a pretty typical ...