Chipmakers now can create processors that accelerate encoding and decoding of Google's royalty-free VP8 video format. Also, Opera builds in WebP image support. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

The developers of Handbrake just announced the 0.10 update to their extremely popular and useful Open Source video transcoding product. Originally focused on ripping DVDs, the product now can be used ...

May 19, 2010 -- Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids-- the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences -- today announced that the company is ...

[In response to reader questions and comments, this article was updated at 6:20 a.m. on Monday, May 24. See author's comments at the end of the article.—Ed] VP8 is now free, but if the quality is ...

The "Duclair" release brings Google's royalty-free video encoder software to version 1.0.0. But a sequel to rival H.264 is waiting in the wings, too. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

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This article assumes a basic understanding of video compression algorithms. For an introduction to video coders, see How video compression works. Announced in the fall of 2008, On2 Technologies' 8 th ...

At Google IO, the Google team talked repeatedly about having done "a thorough legal analysis" into the VP8 video codec to make sure it doesn't infringe any patents . "We're very confident with the ...

And I just updated Firefox yesterday, unfortunately not the latest version (since it hasn't made it to the repositories yet). The question I have is how pervasive is VP8 encoding? I was under the ...