H.264 Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Connect360 updated with H.264 support

by Mat Lu (May 14th, 2007)

A while back in our TUAW Guide to Xbox 360 and Mac we mentioned the forthcoming Spring Dashboard update on the 360 was to bring updated video codec support. Well that update dropped last week and Nullriver has correspondingly updated their Connect360 software (which we've mentioned before) that ...

Elgato announces turbo.264, USB stick H.264 encoder

by Mat Lu (Apr 2nd, 2007)

According to the folks over at iPhone-Scene, Elgato, makers of Mac based TV tuners and the EyeTV PVR software, has announced the turbo.264 USB H.264 hardware encoder. When plugged into a Mac, this device will allow any application that uses QuickTime to export H.264 video two to four times faster ...

First impression: buying a movie from the iTunes Store

by Scott McNulty (Sep 12th, 2006)

First off let me say that I'm glad Apple finally changed the name of the store to something 'music neutral.' With that said, how is the movie buying experience on the iTunes Store? Pretty good. Thanks the the 'CoverFlow' implementation I was able to look through the 75 movies available and find one ...

Easy iPod/PSP movies with Instant Handbrake

by David Chartier (May 2nd, 2006)

When it comes to turning a DVD into a movie file, Handbrake's name is hailed far and wide for its ease of use, speed and overall quality. Recently, Handbrake's developer took these praised aspects and raised the bar by releasing Instant Handbrake (beta), a one-stop, brain-dead-easy app for ...

ffmpegX has gone Universal

by Scott McNulty (Apr 28th, 2006)

ffmpegX, my video encoder of choice, has released a new version (0.0.9w) that is a Universal Binary (I bet it encodes like lightening on one of the now Intel Macs). This version only supports OS X 10.3 or higher, so you pre-Panther folks will need to use an older version. Other than the Universal ...

H.264 gains on Windows Media

by Scott McNulty (Mar 1st, 2006)

I'll be the first to admit that I am no streaming video expert, but I have used H.264 for some personal projects and I really like the results I get. It looks like, according to a report by StreamingMedia.com, the H.264 codec (which is the bit that you use to encode videos into H.264) is more ...