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A zero-day vulnerability in the FFmpeg open-source multimedia framework, which is currently used in numerous Linux kernel-based operating systems and software applications, also for the Mac OS X and Windows platforms, was unveiled recently. The vulnerability was discovered on January 12, 2016, by Russian programmer Maxim Andreev in the current stable builds of the FFmpeg software, and it would appear that it allows anyone who has the necessary skills to hack a computer to read local files on a remote machine and send them over the network using a specially crafted video file. The vulnerability is limited to reading local...

The Great Apple Video Encoder Attack of 2007: Cupertino plans to add H.264 hardware support to its entire line. Maybe you have wondered, as I have, why it takes a pretty robust notebook computer to play DVD videos, while Wal-Mart will sell you a perfectly capable progressive-scan DVD player from Philips for $38? In general, the dedicated DVD player is not only a lot cheaper, it works better, too, and the simple reason is because it decodes the DVD's MPEG-2 video stream in hardware, rather than in software. They won't run a spreadsheet, true, but DVD players are brilliant at...

AT&T: Apple infringing on MPEG-4 patents AT&T says that Apple and others are infringing on its MPEG video compression patents. PC Magazine reports that "AT&T possesses several patents related to video compression, which the company says are an essential component of the MPEG-4 video technology. In a bid to drive its global licensing program, AT&T has targeted Apple Computer, Inc., CyberLink Corp., DivX, Inc., InterVideo, Inc., and Sonic Solutions as unlicensed companies whose products and software utilize the MPEG-4 technology." The report also says that AT&T has contacted national retailers that distribute products the potentially infringing products, to let them...

My parents made a camcorder of my children's birthday party. I have the DVD and would like to convert it to a mpg file. Is there a software to do this? Thank you.

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2002--Forgent(tm) Networks (Nasdaq:FORG - News), a leading provider of enterprise video network software and services, today announced that it has concluded an intellectual property (IP) license agreement with Sony Corporation covering Forgent's data compression technology embodied in U.S. Patent No. 4,698,672 owned by its subsidiary, Compression Labs Inc. Sony is one of the world's largest manufacturers of digital cameras. Other terms of the IP license agreement were not disclosed.