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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

Even if you don't believe all the hype about HTML5, sooner or later, you'll need to start encoding some video to WebM format. Maybe for internal experimentation, for a pay-per-view or subscription ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google has just released a new update to its WebM video software, providing it with faster performance. The WebM project, sponsored by Google, is a multimedia container designed to provide an open, ...