Digital Rapids and Telestream amongst others have both announced that they will be adding support for the WebM web media format and VP8 Codec following Google’s launch of the WebM project. WebM is ...

Google is ending support for the H.264 video codec in its Chrome web browser, preferring its own WebM format, writes David Fox. In future, its resources will be “directed towards completely open codec ...

Google on Wednesday introduced a new, open source video format called WebM that Google hopes will become "a world-class media format for the open web." In other words, WebM is meant to be a video ...

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Mozilla and Opera Software on Wednesday backed Google’s new open-source, royalty-free video format, and all three browser makers issued developer builds incorporating WebM. One analyst bemoaned the ...

Google, which acquired the VP8 in its acquisition earlier this year of On2 Technologies, is packaging VP8 with the open source audio codec Vorbis under the WebM project, an industry initiative ...

A funny thing happened on the way to royalty-free video, a journey that started back in 2010 when Google announced the WebM Project to develop an open video format for the Web. Many assumed that ...