List of video services using H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

This page provides a list of specific service providers who are, or soon will be, providing video in the

Terrestrial broadcast adoption

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• ISDB-T (1seg) uses the H.264/AVC codec, including major broadcaster such as Botswana Television
  .
• ISDB-T
  .
• Colombia announced in August 2008 the adoption of the DVB-T broadcasting standard.
• Czech Republic, O2, one of DVB-T providers is broadcasting HD versions of TV channels CT1 and Nova experimentally in H.264/AVC.
• Pay TV
  channels for digital terrestrial broadcast television services (referred to as "TNT") in France in late 2004.
• Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Slovenia are expected to use H.264/AVC for all terrestrial digital television services.
• DMB-T/H system environment, starting from the end of 2007. Asia Television has joined this decision and uses H.264 for its new digital services too (both broadcasters use MPEG-2
  to encode the digital simulcast of the existing analogue channels.)
• Hungary's DVB-T service, MinDigTV, uses H.264 for encoding both SD and HD transmissions, including simulcasts of analogue channels.
• ISDB-T (1seg) uses the H.264/AVC codec, including major broadcasters such as NHK and Fuji Television
  .
• Digital Multimedia Broadcast
  (DMB) service will use H.264/AVC.
• Poland will test DVB-T transmissions (as of 2007^[update] working reliably for several years) use MPEG-2, but commercial run scheduled after 2010 will be MPEG-4 only.
• ITV HD, although the later will be publicly launched along with the Freesat HD version on 2 April 2010. Channel 4 HD
  is due to start broadcasts in later April 2010.
• Portugal Telecom
  will use H.264 for encoding both SD and HD transmissions starting in 2009.
• New Zealand's Freeview service launched its DVB-T transmissions in March 2008 using H.264/AVC.
• Nine HD
  service to launch its DVB-T transmissions on 26 November 2015 using H.264/AVC.
• Norway's NTV use H.264/AVC for its national DVB-T broadcasting started October 2007 in central southern areas of Norway. Norway is among the first to use MPEG-4/AVC exclusively in all its terrestrial television broadcasts, finished by November 2008. The analogue transponders were switched off in 2009
• Singapore's first over-the-air HDTV channel, MediaCorp HD5, uses H.264/AVC.
• Pan-Arab States
  first over-the-air national TV stations, uses H.264/AVC.
• Italy's DVB-T services from RAI (public broadcaster) and Mediaset (largest commercial broadcaster) use H.264/AVC for encoding HD transmissions since 2008.
• Thailand DVB-T2 services are uses H.264/AVC both SD and HD.

Direct broadcast satellite TV services

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• Freeview HD
  service.
• Freeview HD service.(United Kingdom
  )
• Česká televize uses H.264 for its satellite (DVB-S2) service on Astra 3B service (Karta ČT).^[1]
• DirecTV (in the United States)
• Dish Network (in the United States)
• Euro1080 (in Europe)
• InTV uses H.264 for its satellite (DVB-S2) service on ARSAT-2. (Argentina)
• Sun Direct DTH (in India
  )
• BIG TV (in India
  )
• HD5 (MediaCorp TV in Singapore)
• NTV Plus (in Russia)
• Sky Deutschland (in Germany)
• standard definition service continues to use MPEG-2
• Sky Italia (in Italy)
• SVT HD (Sveriges Television in Sweden)
• TuVes HD (in Chile)

IPTV services

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• Australian ISP
  IPTV
  service.
• Canadian Telco
  IPTV
  service.
• German Telco
  IPTV
  service.
• Inuk Networks the largest IPTV provider in the UK broadcasts in H.264.
• IPTV service named JAMBOX
  .
• The BBC uses streamed H.264 files to deliver its BBC iPlayer catch-up services to FreesatHD set top boxes and televisions.
• Sri Lanka Telecom
  's PEO TV Platform the only IPTV service provider in Sri Lanka broadcasts in H.264/MPEG 4.

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 Telecommunication 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.^[2] 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.^[3]
• Google's
  T-Mobile G1, a Qualcomm MSM7200 CPU provides hardware decoding.^[5]
• 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.^[6]
• Microsoft supports H.264/AVC in its
  Expression Encoder
  products
• The
  iView using H.264 video ^{[citation needed}
  ].