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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WebM is the online video format used in HTML5, and is the only web-focused video format available that is royalty-free and high ...

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 ...

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'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 ...

HTML5 video has a few hurdles to leap before it can fully replace Flash, but one looms larger than all others: Opposition to proprietary video formats, like h.264. Conveniently, Google has just ...

IRVINE, Calif., May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today ...

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 ...

Earlier Microsoft has clarified that while the only format supported by the browser out-of-the-box would be H.264, however third parties could release a decoder component that would enabe VP8 playback ...

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 ...

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 ...