Streaming video websites like YouTube face growing pressure from consumers to provide support for native standards-based Web video playback. The HTML5 video element provides the necessary ...

Mozilla is making a move toward open Web standards with its upcoming Firefox 3.1 release. The software — now available in test builds — will support the Ogg Theora video codec, the company revealed at ...

With YouTube and other video sites serving up over a billion streams a day, it’s beyond contention that web-based video is not only mainstream, but has become fundamental to the web experience. Why, ...

The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, a group devoted to publishing web standards, recently moved to approve the Ogg video and audio formats for inclusion into the forthcoming HTML5 standard. Nokia, ...

That of Mozilla’s Firefox not supporting the de-facto standard H264 video format is a well known problem many people wrote about recently. I think John made the best analysis of the situation, ...

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 ...

Want to know how to play a weird video file on your Mac? Don’t worry – there’s probably a simple solution. There are dozens of video file formats, with more being added all the time, and it’s ...