San Diego-based DivX has released a new entree into the Mac market with the release of an upgraded digital media product for creating DivX encoded video on the Apple platform.

The Ministry of Information has approved China’s proprietary AVS video codec.

David Berlind at ZDNet blogs talks about TiVo’s move to use watermark instead of DRM in their latest TiVoToGo service. Finally a breath of fresh air, I hope this trend continues.

On December 3, 2005, the challenge was accepted by Alexander Ratushnyak who sent an entry of size 593620 (payout of $88.25 pending). It continues the series of PAQAR-based entries and requires less than 255 Mb of RAM.

On2 Technologies the developer of Flash 8 video tools, announced it has signed a licensing agreement with Anystream in which the two companies will integrate the On2 Flash 8 Video SDK into Anystream’s Agility 5.0 platform.

Random data compression claims are nothing new, here is another one. Sigh!!!

A few more “unpatched” flaws in RealPlayer. File format bugs (ZLib, GZip, ARJ, JPEG, iTunes, QuickTime and now Real) are becoming frequent news.

ZDNet: As Hollywood readies its new and controversial high-definition DVDs, at least one major studio is leaving some of the most advanced parts of the new disc formats on the table in favor of technology that’s more than a decade old.

$2.9 Million in IP License Revenues: NetSimplicity Software Revenues Grew by 19%

The U.S. National Library of Medicine recently hosted “Getting to Disk-Based Lossless Digital Video Compression,” a topical meeting that included the first public demonstration of real-time, full-screen, mathematically-lossless video compression and decompression based on the Motion JPEG2000 (MJ2) standard.