Part 2 of this series discussed applications for digital video on the Internet, professional editing systems and processing software. Part 3 covers popular video formats and their fields of ...

A media container is a “wrapper” that contains video, audio and data elements, and can function as a file entity or as an encapsulation method for a live stream. Because container formats are now ...

Known as H.264, among other designations, the new format is turning heads over claims that it can deliver DVD-quality broadcasts over the Internet using considerably fewer network resources than ...

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 ...

Video compression technologies continue to evolve to improve storage of data and images, as well as allow coders to initiate real-time changes to processes as needed. These latest techniques in fully ...

The EnvivioTV MPEG-4 player for set-top boxes, PCs and mobile devices is available as a plug-in for QuickTime, RealOne, Real Player and Windows Media player products. Compression technology has ...

Video compression is one of the most important aspects of video production, and it’s something that will only become more important in the future. With so many people now watching videos online, it’s ...

When you take the plunge into playing with digital video on your computer, it's helpful to know something about the file formats, which are not all interchangeable or compatible. AVI, or Audio Video ...

Today, we’re going to talk about lossless compression. So last episode we talked about some basic file formats, but what we didn’t talk about is compression. Often files are way too large to be easily ...

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