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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft has mentioned that it is working to add support for Google's WebM video file format — ...

We’ve tested it for quite some time, and can say for certain that it works as intended. Folks like us do not need to be extracting meta information from video files, but for those who do, well, this ...

[Editor's Note: Between the time this article was written and the time it was published, Google appeared to reverse a portion of its stance on the BSD license and changed its WebM FAQ accordingly. In ...