WebM is the online video format used in HTML5, and is the only web-focused video format available that is royalty-free and high quality. Launched in 2010 with the backing of powerful partners such as ...

Just when the H.264 video codec is starting to take over a large portion of new Web videos, along comes Google to shake things up again. Today, along with Mozilla and Opera, it is launching the WebM ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The web received a shiny new gift Wednesday morning – a truly open and royalty-free video codec for HTML5 web pages. "We are fully open-sourcing VP8 under a completely royalty-free ...

SAN FRANCISCO – When Google announced it would be releasing the VP8 video codec under an open source license, all of the major browser vendors jumped up to support it. Well, all of them except Apple.

We’ve already done a full breakdown of Google’s clarification of their H.264 pullout today. But buried in their post is another interesting nugget worth highlighting by itself: WebM plugins are coming ...

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 ...

Even if you don't believe all the hype about HTML5, sooner or later, you'll need to start encoding some video to WebM format. Maybe for internal experimentation, for a pay-per-view or subscription ...

What do you do when the tech industry is in a Web video pissing match that just won't end? If you're Google you open source the video codec acquired in the On2 Technologies deal and create a project ...

The Web giant has released a royalty-free video technology to counter H.264. Allies include Mozilla, Opera, and its own YouTube. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

In an effort to keep WebM development open and moving forward, The WebM Project (an organization dedicated to WebM development) has announced the WebM Community Cross-License (CCL) Initiative. Formed ...

Nokia has explicitly ruled out licensing a set of video patents under royalty-free or FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) terms, potentially blocking efforts by Google to make its VP8 ...

The WebM open media project was announced recently and will hopefully change how we load and handle videos online for a long time to come. As of right now, depending on what website you’re on, you ...