Just when the H.264 video codec is starting to take over a large portion of new Web videos, along comes Google to shake things up again. Today, along with Mozilla and Opera, it is launching the WebM ...

Among the announcements made at today’s Google I/O keynote is WebM, a new open-source, royalty-free video format based around the VP8 codec intended for use with HTML5 video. The WebM project’s goal ...

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The Web giant has released a royalty-free video technology to counter H.264. Allies include Mozilla, Opera, and its own YouTube. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

We’ve already done a full breakdown of Google’s clarification of their H.264 pullout today. But buried in their post is another interesting nugget worth highlighting by itself: WebM plugins are coming ...

Even if you don't believe all the hype about HTML5, sooner or later, you'll need to start encoding some video to WebM format. Maybe for internal experimentation, for a pay-per-view or subscription ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The web received a shiny new gift Wednesday morning – a truly open and royalty-free video codec for HTML5 web pages. "We are fully open-sourcing VP8 under a completely royalty-free ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WebM is the online video format used in HTML5, and is the only web-focused video format available that is royalty-free and high ...

Google announced on Wednesday that it has released its VP8 video codec into open source under the WebM open Web media project. The VP8 codec can be used to run video in Web browsers and devices and ...

Company has registered the WebM Project site, and one video industry insider has heard it will house Google's Web video efforts. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Google announced last week that it is axing support for the H.264 video codec from its Chrome browser. (Only the one it distributes for desktops, at the moment; but it's not clear whether the Android ...

In an effort to keep WebM development open and moving forward, The WebM Project (an organization dedicated to WebM development) has announced the WebM Community Cross-License (CCL) Initiative. Formed ...