Almost a year after Google announced its open-source, royalty-free WebM video format, YouTube began transcoding newly uploaded videos into the format. YouTube says the majority of its most viewed ...

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 ...

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 ...

At its annual I/O conference, Google has unveiled its plan to release a video codec it acquired as a royalty free alternative to the ISO MPEG's H.264. Google was joined by Mozilla and Opera as browser ...

This post is brought to you by Evano converter. Videos are a part of our daily lives, whether for blasts of knowledge or pure entertainment. But while we rely on them for work and pleasure, the file ...

Google has announced the new WebM Community Cross License (CCL) initiative. The new group is designed to create a patent-safe haven around Google's WebM video codec for HTML5 video. Members of the new ...

Google [GOOG] has announced a new video format called WebM. WebM is based on the VP8 video codec that Google acquired when they purchased a company called On2 a while ago. According to Google, the ...

When Google unveiled the WebM project at Google I/O a few weeks ago, one partner’s browser support was notably absent: Google’s. Sure, they added VP8/WebM support to Chromium, the open-source browser ...

Safari features support for WebM video playback in the second beta of macOS Big Sur 11.3 Beta, indicating that Apple's browser will finally support the format after failing to do so for almost 11 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...