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Google Chrome Drops H.264 Support, Even Though It Still Loves Flash

8:53AM January 12, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

Oh wow. Google’s dropping support for h.264 video in Chrome, because, they say, they’re only going to support “open codec technologies”: More »

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H.264 Will Be Royalty-Free, Mozilla Still Doesn’t Care

11:11PM August 27, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

MPEG LA, the group who who licenses the h.264 video codec, has extended its royalty-free use (for free internet video) from 2016 until, well, forever. But Mozilla thinks that the better part of forever could belong to Google’s WebM format. More »

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Elgato Turbo.264 HD Makes Converting Video For iPads, iPhones Super Simple

2:11AM July 16, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

If someone you know would be daunted by an instruction to “just use Handbrake”, Elgato’s new Turbo.264 HD software makes it dead easy to convert video files from camcorders and computers for playback on iPads and iPhones and the rest.. More »

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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Finalised, You Can Download Now

5:44AM June 11, 2010 | Casey Chan

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 just got finalised so if you want silky smooth HD video, go download it now. More »

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Steve Jobs Is Not Impressed With Google’s New Video Format

7:18AM May 21, 2010 | John Herrman

Google hopes to sidestep the entire HTML5 video debate with a new, open source, royalty free format called WebM. But will Apple ever support it? Judging by to the latest missive from Steve’s iPad, things don’t look great. More »

Giz Explains: Why It’s Hard To Stream Video Over 3G

6:00AM May 11, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

The thing about wirelessly streaming video to millions and millions of phones is that it’s, like, hard. More »

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Is H.264 A Legal Minefield For Video Pros?

6:00AM May 5, 2010 | Stephen Shankland - CNET

If you’re a digital-video professional – someone who records weddings, sells stock footage or edits B-roll – chances are good you deal with H.264. But after reading software licence agreements, you might well wonder if you have rights to do so. More »

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The H.264 Encoding Boom

9:15AM May 2, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Earlier this week, Steve Jobs said quite confidently that alternatives like H.264 have already made the lion’s share of web video available to devices that don’t support Flash. This chart shows why he’s probably right. More »

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Why Flash On Mac Is About To Get Much Less Terrible

2:00AM April 25, 2010 | John Herrman

Running Flash on Mac OS is, in a word, miserable. It’s slow, resource-sucking and crashy, compared to Windows. Which is why Apple’s new video acceleration API – which Adobe plans to use in upcoming versions of Flash – is great news. More »

Watch Films On iPad? Might As Well Use 480p

8:40AM April 15, 2010 | Joel Johnson

The iPad’s screen is relatively low resolution, just 1024 x 768 pixels. If you’re watching a moves in widescreen with letterboxing, these screenshots from The A-Team trailer from Apple.com make it clear there’s little difference. When zoomed in, however… More »