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 ...

Fnord Software has today announced that they’re releasing a free plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro CC that adds support for Google’s WebM video format. But the plugin doesn’t just add WebM support to ...

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 ...

A Mozilla developer announced today that support for WebM has been merged into the Firefox source code and that the feature will be available in the next nightly build of the open source Web browser.

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Edge will get support for Google’s open source WebM video file format, Windows Central reports. The news comes via a Microsoft developer feedback forum where SteveG asked for native WebM ...

After over a decade of availability, Apple has finally added support for Google's WebM video codec in Safari on macOS Big Sur 11.3. Google's video format WebM has existed since 2010 but for reasons ...

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 ...

Google has announced the intention to remove support for H.264 video playback from its Crome browser to "enable open innovation," yet still apparently plans to promote Adobe Flash. According to Google ...