Tapping into one of the biggest trends in information technology this year, Cisco will be open sourcing its H.264 codec for high-definition online video. The codec will be available to download for ...

With its Thor project, Cisco is trying to provide the tech industry with a royalty-free video codec for use in Web browsers and online video, an issue that has stymied the industry for years. Video ...

If the connection is not optimal, the call quality with Webex has suffered badly so far. Now Cisco is catching up with Microsoft and Google with a new AI codec. Real-time applications such as ...

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Does the online video industry need another standard? After HEVC Advance—the second HEVC patent group—announced its royalty rates in late July, more people are likely to answer yes. In a blog post, ...

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 ...