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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 ...

It looks like the May release of WebM wasn't the final word for Google's Web video technology: there's now room for experimentation. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

The following blogpost originally appeared on Florian Mueller's Fosspatents blog. Mueller has been following the ups and downs of software patents on the web closely for a long time. Here's his latest ...

The future of WebM, a free new Google technology for streaming video, is uncertain, but already it's changed the industry. Here's a look how. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Google announced last week that it is axing support for the H.264 video codec from its Chrome browser. (Only the one it distributes for desktops, at the moment; but it's not clear whether the Android ...

MPEG LA, the one-stop shop for motion video patent licenses, yesterday announced a call for patents essential to the VP8 video compression algorithm — the algorithm that is fundamental to Google’s ...

Google announced on Wednesday that it has released its VP8 video codec into open source under the WebM open Web media project. The VP8 codec can be used to run video in Web browsers and devices and ...