Avatar is now climbing to the top sales setting a new record after four weekends (total earnings so far are up to 48.5 million dollars, compared to Cameron’s previous hit, Titanic which was having about half of this). Even if Avatar is the most pirated movie at the moment earnings of one billion dollars are [...]

H.264 is an industry standard for video compression. Video compression can be defined as the process of converting digital video into a format that reduces the file size for when it is stored or transmitted. An H.264 video encoder carries out prediction and encoding processes to produce a compressed H.264 bitstream. Video compression (or video [...]

Video conferencing is a technology integrating video, audio and specific content to offer a very close to reality communication experience. Participants need a computer,a microphone, a webcam and a broadband internet connection to participate in video conference. This way they will be able to see and hear each other in real time. Digital compression of [...]

Progressive or noninterlaced scanning is a method for displaying, storing or transmitting moving images in which all the lines of each frame are drawn in sequence. The opposite process is interlacing used in traditional television systems where only the odd lines, then the even lines of each frame (each image is called a field) are [...]

YouTube is working now on seriously trying to offer High Definition with 1080p support. Their technology requires the users to download and install the Adobe Flash Player plugin similar to QuickTime or RealPlayer browser plug-ins. Users are limited to a ten minutes in length and 2 GB files size. They had no restrictions but only [...]

Since Silverlight was released, the IPTV community has been debating whether or not it could replace Flash as the industry standard. It has been accepted that both techologies will play important roles in the industry as they both have particular strengths and weaknesses. Here are a few important differences between Flash and Silverlight: 1. Flash [...]

Lately I was doing research about codecs and wanted to make a comparison between H.264 and VP6. There are a lot of discussions where people are a bit confusing about what shall they use to do live streaming with the best video quality for their viewers. In general, VP6 and VP7 are designed to combine [...]