Voice and video communications over IP have become ubiquitous over the last decade, pervasive across desktop apps, mobile apps, IP phones, video conferencing endpoints, and more. One big barrier ...

A vulnerability in Cisco's video codec OpenH264 allows attackers to smuggle in malicious code. Firefox is also at risk. OpenH264 supports Scalable Video Coding (SVC), in which videos are encoded at ...

As of today, Firefox offers the most versatility for WebRTC, with support of two video codecs, including Cisco's beloved OpenH264. It's a familiar drill with WebRTC: A new application that provides ...

Did we ever mention that software patents are a serious pain for free-software projects? The usual problem is in trying to avoid them and, thus, the lawyers, lawsuits, and other exciting trappings of ...

The Advanced Video Coding (AVC) video codec, often referred to as H.264, is a video-compression standard meant to provide reasonable video quality at lower bitrates than previous standards. It is ...