MPEG-4 Visual patent protection ended worldwide on July 19, 2026, when Brazilian patent BRPI0109962B1, held by Siemens AG, expired, making DivX and Xvid fully free to encode, decode, and distribute ...

I noticed that Divx released a bug-fix release for it's Mac codec today, and started wondering: which of the available codecs works best on the Mac? As far as I understand it, Divx, 3ivx, Apple, and ...

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. Here are the facts as I know them. The people who brought us ...

Comrex, a manufacturer of professional broadcasting equipment, is licensing Fraunhofer IIS implementations of two of the most efficient audio compression technologies standardized in MPEG-4. By ...

IndigoVision claims to have the first MPEG4 codec beating larger chip firms and IP houses to this next generation multimedia technology. Called Mainstream, the coder/decoder is implemented entirely in ...

As broadcasters and multichannel operators seek to deploy multiple high definition television channels, expand their digital channel offerings, and develop additional two-way interactive services, one ...

CUPERTINO, Calif.--Protocom Technology Corp. today said it will demonstrate the industry's first hardwired chip based on MPEG-4 technology for NTSC/PAL-resolution television images at full frame rates ...

July 1, 2004 - IndigoVision the Edinburgh, Scotland based designer of the market leading Mainstream MPEG-4 Video Codec today announced the release of an AMBA (Advanced Micro-controller Bus ...

If the barrage of IC launches offers any evidence, then MPEG-4 looks to be well on its way to becoming the mainstream codec technology after years of development and competition from other standards.

Add or Remove Programs entry for XviD MPEG4 Video Codec. Xvid is a MPEG-4 video codec for PC. Its purpose is to compress video in order to allow for faster transmission over computer networks or for ...