After igniting a hailstorm of controversy over its intent to drop HTML5's H.264 support from its Chrome browser, Google has reaffirmed its intent to push its own open WebM video codec via Flash-like ...

The confusion over what the dropping of support for H.264 video encoding in HTML5 from the Chrome browser is eased by asking Google if - or when - YouTube will follow suit Mud. Does Google's VP8 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opera has released a development snapshot of its Web browser that introduces support for WebM video and several HTML5 features. It also has a number of bug fixes and other improvements. WebM is a new ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Brightcove, the leading online video platform, today announced plans tosupport WebM, an open Web media project and the open sourcing of the VP8video codec, ...

This week WebM, one of the two major video formats competing for use with HTML5 video, took a major stumble when the Mozilla browser announced support for competing H.264. Even though it's not royalty ...

WebM is a video container format for the web that realizes high image quality and high compression ratio, developed in anticipation of use by Google on HTML5 which is the next generation web standard.

HTML5 video has a few hurdles to leap before it can fully replace Flash, but one looms larger than all others: Opposition to proprietary video formats, like h.264. Conveniently, Google has just ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from the Geek Tech blog at PCWorld.com. Among the announcements made at Wednesday’s Google I/O keynote is WebM, a new open-source, royalty-free video ...