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Comparison of video codecs

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General Information

Basic general information about the codecs: creator/company, license/price etc.

Codec Creator First public release date Latest stable version Cost (USD) License Patented
Cinepak Radius Inc ? ? ? ? ?
H.264 ITU-T Joint Video Team (JVT)
(Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) & ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)) 		May 2003 ? ? ? Yes
Theora Xiph.org α1: September 25th, 2002 α5: August 20th, 2005 free BSD No

Operating System Support

Codec Mac OS X Unix & Unix-like Windows
Cinepak Yes Yes Yes
H.264 Yes ? Yes
Theora Yes Yes Yes

Technical details

Codec Algorithm bitrate resolution
Cinepak Lossy compression ? ?
H.264 ? ? ?
Theora Lossy compression ? ?
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