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 — ...

Google has announced that its VP8 video codec standard is now open source and available for royalty-free use for online and mobile video, among other uses. VP8 is being bundled with the Vorbis audio ...

Today, Google opened up their opening keynote for Google I/O. It's entire purpose was to talk about the Web, HTML5, and how it all can work together to move the standard forward. Part of that movement ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's the announcement many have been waiting for: YouTube, which is owned by Google, is now transcoding all newly uploaded videos into the WebM format. This news comes from a post on the YouTube ...

[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 ...