Gizmodo

Apple to Add H.264 Hardware Decoding to All Machines?

Bob Cringely of PBS fame has it on good “rumor” authority that Apple‘s planning to add H.264 hardware support to all of its machines. As in the iMac, the MacBook, the MacBook Pro, the Mac Pro, and ...
Gizmodo

Elgato’s Turbo 264 USB Stick Encodes H.264 for Your iPod, iPhone and Apple TV

Following up on the rumor that Apple was going to add an H.264 hardware encoding/decoding chip into all upcoming Macs, Elgato has released an H.264 USB stick that does just that. What does this mean ...
tvbeurope.com

Google drops H.264 for WebM

Google is ending support for the H.264 video codec in its Chrome web browser, preferring its own WebM format, writes David Fox. In future, its resources will be “directed towards completely open codec ...
Cult of Mac

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Bringing Hardware H.264 Decoding To Macs Out of Beta

Good news! You can now have H.264 hardware-decoded Flash on your Mac without resorting to installing beta software… just like Windows users have been enjoying for ...
Streaming Media Magazine

The Pros and Cons of Software Decoding for Publishers and Viewers

A recent paper from Friedrich-Alexander University benchmarks energy consumption and compression efficiency for six video codecs across software and hardware decoders. While the study uses VP9 as a ...