J_Barnes
Veteran
Hate to chime in here guys, but H.264 is not an apple product, standard, development or any other sort of proprietary Apple development.
H.264 is also known as MPEG-4 Part 10 and AVC, and it is an international standard that's been widely adopted in the Videoconferencing industry for some time now, where it's used to attain a higher level of video quality in calls under 384k of bandwidth. TANDBERG, Polycom and others have been implementing H.264 capabilities in their chipsets and software for over two years at this point. (although my experience has shown that the actual use is only now catching up with the product)
Here's a link to the actual published standard:
http://www.itu.int/rec/recommendation.asp?type=items&lang=e&parent=T-REC-H.264-200503-P
As it's based on a series of patents, companies using H.264 are expected to pay patent royalties, and a private company named MPEG LA is holds the primary portfolio for patents included under the H.264 standard.
So, H.264 is not an Apple product, is not exclusive to Quicktime, and is not limited to Macs.
Sorenson Squeese 4.1 for MPEG-4 already does it, as does Nero Digital.
H.264 is also known as MPEG-4 Part 10 and AVC, and it is an international standard that's been widely adopted in the Videoconferencing industry for some time now, where it's used to attain a higher level of video quality in calls under 384k of bandwidth. TANDBERG, Polycom and others have been implementing H.264 capabilities in their chipsets and software for over two years at this point. (although my experience has shown that the actual use is only now catching up with the product)
Here's a link to the actual published standard:
http://www.itu.int/rec/recommendation.asp?type=items&lang=e&parent=T-REC-H.264-200503-P
As it's based on a series of patents, companies using H.264 are expected to pay patent royalties, and a private company named MPEG LA is holds the primary portfolio for patents included under the H.264 standard.
So, H.264 is not an Apple product, is not exclusive to Quicktime, and is not limited to Macs.
Sorenson Squeese 4.1 for MPEG-4 already does it, as does Nero Digital.