Google's plan to open-source the VP8 video codec it acquired when it purchased a company called On2 hasn't exactly been a secret, and the company's finally made it official today as part of a new ...

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Almost a year after Google announced its open-source, royalty-free WebM video format, YouTube began transcoding newly uploaded videos into the format. YouTube says the majority of its most viewed ...

Google [GOOG] has announced a new video format called WebM. WebM is based on the VP8 video codec that Google acquired when they purchased a company called On2 a while ago. According to Google, the ...

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 ...

Announced at Google i/O today, WebM is a newly open-sourced multimedia format, consisting primarily of the video format formerly known as VP8. The goal is to provide an open, easy video experience ...

Google launched its WebM digital video format project almost a year ago with the goal of delivering a high-performance online video format that wasn’t burdened by patent claims from a laundry list of ...

Google has announced that its VP8 video codec standard is now open source and available for royalty-free use for online and mobile video, among other uses. VP8 is being bundled with the Vorbis audio ...

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 ...

The first day of Google‘s I/O conference was short on exciting consumer news–no Google TV, no Android 2.2, just a bunch of developer tools (I know, I know, it’s a developer conference, but we’re not ...

The WebM open media project was announced recently and will hopefully change how we load and handle videos online for a long time to come. As of right now, depending on what website you’re on, you ...