List of Video Services Using H.264/MPEG-4 AVC - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has approved the inclusion of H.264/AVC as an optional feature in release 6 of its mobile multimedia telephony services specifications.
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the Motion Imagery Standards Board (MISB) of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) have adopted H.264/AVC as their preferred video codec for a broad variety of military applications.
• The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has completed a payload packetization format (RFC 6184) for carrying H.264/AVC video using its Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP).
• The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) has adopted H.264/AVC for its new ISMA 2.0 specifications.
• Based on ITU-T H.32x standards, H.264/AVC is widely used for videoconferencing. Procedures and control signals are defined in H.241. Essentially all new videoconferencing products now support it.
• The International Telecommunications Union-Radiocom. Sector (ITU-R) has adopted H.264/AVC in
  • ITU-R BT.1687 "Video bit-rate reduction for real-time distribution of large-screen digital imagery applications for presentation in a theatrical environment" and
  • ITU-R BT.1737 "Use of the ITU-T Recommendation H.264 (MPEG-4/AVC) video source-coding method to transport high definition TV programme material" for HDTV contribution, distribution, and satellite news gathering.
• In October 2005, Apple Inc began selling H.264-encoded videos over the Internet through their iTunes Music Store. Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch support H.264 Baseline Profile, Levels 2.1 and 3, at resolutions up to 480x320 or 640x480 and bitrates up to 1.5 Mbit/s and is capable of playing the YouTube video content.
• Google's Android platform for mobile devices natively supports H.264. On the T-Mobile G1, a Qualcomm MSM7200 CPU provides hardware decoding.
• Selected videos on the regular (non-mobile) Google YouTube website (including suitable quality videos uploaded after June 2007) are available in a selectable "High Quality" version which uses H.264, as well as having a higher bitrate and resolution.
• Adobe supports H.264 in its Flash Player.
• Microsoft supports H.264/AVC in its Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9, Silverlight, and Expression Encoder products
• The Australian Broadcasting Corporation offers streaming video online in a service called iView using H.264 video .