H.264

The new MPEG-4 Part 10 spec, which will be the next best thing since sliced DivX, etc. You get the idea. Still, it might be the nearest useful way to get broadband VOD that really scales, or even some decent mobile content…

• Mark Pilgrim’s podencoder, a character-building exercise on encoding iPod video.
• edge264, a minimalist H.264 decoder.
• x264.
• hdot264 (still pre-alpha).
• Apple Tiger Preview.