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 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 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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. SAN JOSE, CALIF.: Harmonic announced 4:2:2 decoding capabilities for its ProView 7100 integrated ...

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 ...

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 ...