Broadcasters and service providers have a wide variety of options to consider when choosing the correct compression strategy for the contribution and distribution of broadcast content. With ...

The MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards are now at a relatively mature stage. At the same time, new implementations of MPEG-4 are still on the rise, especially using H.264/AVC. Both ATSC and DVB-T support ...

Compression is one of the most important criteria in determining quality and cost of ownership in a digital video system. Advances in processing power enable more sophisticated compression techniques.

A secretive 4-year-old project aimed at improving digital video is ready for its close-up. Privately held Pulsent on Monday will take the wraps off a new compression technique that the company claims ...

If you are trying to choose a video compression methodology, get ready to be confused. The confusion starts right away with an alphabet soup that includes H.264, MJPEG and MPEG4. Now, wade through the ...

Because video clips are made up of sequences of individual images, or “frames,” video compression algorithms share many concepts and techniques with still-image compression algorithms. Therefore, we ...