In order to get the Raspberry Pi's pricing down to a low point, there had to be some cuts made to its abilities. First of which, was the cull of MPEG-2 decoding. MPEG-2 licensing fees would've ...

Making the Raspberry Pi affordable involved some tough calls, including the omission of MPEG-2 decoding. Licensing fees alone for the video software would have boosted the board's price by ...

The folks at Media 100 must be the hardest working folks at this week’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show in Las Vegas. In addition to a plethora of other announcements, the ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has started selling licences for MPEG-2 and VC-1 video codecs, after complaints from users who turned the cheap Linux computer into a media centre. Because the £25 Linux ...

The DTVD 3030 provides broadcast-quality 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 decoding with multiple video and audio inputs and outputs. Broadcast Technology has announced a series of compact MPEG-2 decoders for ...

In recent years, the adoption of the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) standards helped digital video become a key ingredient in the digital entertainment industry and offered consumers a new ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MPEG LA, LLC, world leader in alternative one-stop patent licenses, today announced the offering of a new MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License that will provide uninterrupted ...

The new series, which consists of two devices, the MB86H01 AA and MB86H01 AB, supports the DVB(*3) broadcasting standard used in these regions, and features MPEG-2 and H.264 decoders integrated into ...

AWS Elemental MediaLive’s statistical multiplexing (Statmux) feature now supports MPEG-2 encoding. According to the company, broadcasters can now use the AWS Cloud to perform MPEG-2 encoding to feed ...

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Lucent Technologies has filed a patent-infringement suit against Microsoft over the same MPEG-2 decoding technology at the center of a 2003 legal dispute. According to the formal complaint, filed ...