Patents management company MPEG LA announced agreements with Google, granting the Internet giant a license to techniques that may be essential to the VP8 video codec that the Internet giant backs. VP8 ...

Agreement with patent-licensing group clears the way for wider adoption of the Web giant's streaming-video platform WebM. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech ...

Mozilla will lobby for the VP8 video codec to become the recommended standard video technology on the web, the company's CEO says. Mozilla will propose the idea to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) ...

Google’s VP8 video compression format, which the company acquired from On2 Technologies, is an open standard and covered by a free patent license. That, however, didn’t stop MPEG LA, the guardians of ...

Developers Ronald Bultje, David Conrad, and Jason Garret-Glaser are creating a native VP8 video codec implementation for the open source FFmpeg project. The aim of this effort is to bring first-class ...

MPEG LA, the self-styled one stop shop for motion video patent licenses, says that 12 different companies have come forward with patents "essential" to the VP8 algorithm championed by Google as a ...

When Google announced a deal to acquire video technology company On2 last year, the move generated speculation that the search giant was aiming to liberate the VP8 codec in order to accelerate the ...

Google wants to make its VP8 video codec a patent-free standard. The competition just threw down the first big challenge to that strategy. MPEG LA, the group that manages the licensing of patents for ...

First, Google opened up its VP8 video codec. Then, Google removed built-in support for the MPEG-LA patent encumbered H.264 video codec from its Chrome Web-browser in favor of VP8. After that it was ...

Google caused confusion with talk of patents, but it turns out company's VP8 video codec is safe for open source use Responding to my article here two weeks ago, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) ...

Just after Google launched WebM to great enthusiasm, AppleInsider reported that the new codec was being criticized by video developers, with one of whom, Jason Garrett-Glaser, "noting that it decodes ...

In reply to a email asking his thoughts on Google's announcement of the royalty-free WebM video codec, Steve Jobs reportedly simply forwarded back the critical expose profiled yesterday by ...