Via Licensing has expanded the call for essential patents reading on the MPEG-4 Audio standard. The MPEG-4 Industry Forum originally issued a call for essential patents related to a subset of MPEG-4 ...

Apple Computer has rejected proposed licensing terms for the emerging MPEG-4 video standard, leaving the future of its QuickTime multimedia technology in limbo. At a company-sponsored conference ...

It's been eight years since MPEG-4 started as a speculative gleam in the eyes of engineers across the world, the ISO/IEC standard for creating, distributing and playing back rich media is finally ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — The agency that licenses MPEG-4 video digital compression technology has lowered royalties but imposed an unprecedented “use fee” for disseminating the video data. MPEG LA LLC, ...

Editors' Note: This article has been updated since its original posting. Seven years ago, when I was still a clueless kid, I played my first video clip on the Internet using a 56k connection. It was ...

Oh, DirecTV; how you confuse us. Many of you already know that DirecTV is starting the transition over to MPEG-4 signals. MPEG-4 is more efficient because of better compression, but you will need new ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The latest MPEG-4 product from Philips is the Streamium MX6000i Internet home entertainment ...

Dolby Laboratories has expanded its MPEG-2 AAC licensing program to incorporate MPEG-4 AAC licensing. The program will address streaming, wireless, and multimedia applications. Acting as the licensing ...

A consortium of companies holding patents attached to the MPEG-4 multimedia standard released its license for the technology, raising hopes for widespread adoption. The license released Monday is ...

The key license for use of the MPEG-4 digital compression standard is now available, MPEG LA LLC, a group of MPEG-4 patent holders said this week. The release ends a dispute around licensing for ...

On Monday, RealNetworks announced that it was supporting MPEG-4 in its RealSystem iQ technology, through server and client-side plug-ins from Envivio. The MPEG-4 solution will be available to ...

There's no question that MPEG-4 is going to succeed MPEG-2 as the standard for streaming digital video. Faster processor speeds and cheap (already less than $200) video capture and playback cards will ...