H.263

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• FourCCs: D263, H263, L263, M263, S263, T263, U263, X263
• Organization: ITU
• Specs : http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.263-200501-I/en
• Implementor's Guide: http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.Imp263/en
• Samples:
  • h263: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/h263/
  • U263: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/U263/

H.263 is a video coding standard developed for telecommunications applications. Many other codecs are known to have borrowed concepts from the standard.

This site containts more information as well as source code: http://www.h263l.com.

These implementations are suspected to be identical to the standard H.263:

• D263: Originated at DEC.
• L263: Originated at LEAD Technologies
• M263: Originated at Microsoft
• X263: Originated at Xirlink

See also

• ISO MPEG-4 (MPEG-4 part 2) - sometime also refered to as "MPEG-4 ASP" or "MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile"