MPEG LA, the group that licenses the h.264 video codec, has extended its royalty-free use (for free internet video) from 2016 until, well, forever.

The MPEG Licensing Authority has indefinitely extended the royalty-free Internet broadcasting licensing of its H.264 video codec to end users. The move erases a key advantage of Google’s WebM rival ...

The distinction in internet broadcast AVC Video is key to continued patent royalties. MPEG LA splits the H.264 license portfolio into two sub-licenses, one for manufacturers of encoders or decoders ...

Oh wow. Google’s dropping support for h.264 video in Chrome, because, they say, they’re only going to support “open codec technologies”: To that end, we are changing Chrome’s HTML5 ...

Google has rather nonchalantly dropped a bombshell on the web — future versions of the Chrome browser will no longer support the popular H.264 video codec. Instead Google is throwing its hat in ...

MPEG-4 and H.264 licensing, in particular, have received the brunt of the disaffection born from confusion. Equal uncertainty abounds for the proprietary codecs, which use licensing models that are ...

It's already been announced that Microsoft will be supporting HTML5 video in Internet Explorer 9. Now the company has confirmed that the codec it will be supporting is H.264. That's bad news for ...

In the meantime, NeuLion in Plainview, NY, is attempting to build a stable of content providers who wish to use the public Internet, NeuLion’s proprietary spin of AVC H.264 and the company’s encoding, ...

Last month, Google announced that it was removing support for H.264 video playback in its Chrome browser. But modern versions of OS X and Windows already include fully licensed copies of the H.264 ...