Video-compression provider On2 Technologies said Tuesday it will release an open-source version of its video-compression technology, or codec. Video codecs are pieces of software that are used to ...

Google's long-awaited open-sourcing of the VP8 video codec has finally happened and both Mozilla and Opera are on board with it. The new codec and container combine decent quality with open source ...

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 ...