A newly proposed web standard could bring DRM to web video. The Encrypted Media Extensions draft – which is backed by the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Netflix – defines a framework for bringing DRM ...

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 ...

When Google began soliciting feedback from users about what features they would most like to see in the next version of YouTube, the response was an overwhelmingly enthusiastic request for ...

HTML5 equips organizations to leverage open standards and stream videos without depending on a third-party player or plug-in. An MPEG/H.264, Ogg/Theora, or WebM/VP8 video can each be played in the ...

The five characters HTML5 are now an established buzzword, found everywhere on the Web and often given top billing in slides, feature lists, and other places where terms du jour congregate.

Using HTML5 video, developers can do a whole lot more than just stream content. At the recent Streaming Media West conference in sunny Huntington Beach, California, Chuck Hudson, co-author of HTML5 ...

MPEG LA, the firm that controls licensing for a number of video and other standards, announced on Thursday that it will never charge any royalties for Internet video encoded using the H.264 standard ...