After igniting a hailstorm of controversy over its intent to drop HTML5's H.264 support from its Chrome browser, Google has reaffirmed its intent to push its own open WebM video codec via Flash-like ...

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 ...

The confusion over what the dropping of support for H.264 video encoding in HTML5 from the Chrome browser is eased by asking Google if - or when - YouTube will follow suit Mud. Does Google's VP8 ...

Opera has released a development snapshot of its Web browser that introduces support for WebM video and several HTML5 features. It also has a number of bug fixes and other improvements. WebM is a new ...

Announced at Google i/O today, WebM is a newly open-sourced multimedia format, consisting primarily of the video format formerly known as VP8. The goal is to provide an open, easy video experience ...

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 ...

Google wants its WebM/VP8 codec to be made a mandatory standard for real-time communications on the web, and has recommended against the use of the H.264 codec. At the moment, the W3C's draft ...

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chatbot chats, including sensitive data, were exposed on Google after xAI’s share feature leaked them. AI is rapidly moving beyond creating static videos to generating ...

Opera is faster than a potato and getting even faster. Opera has released a new build of the coming Opera 10.6, with more support for various HTML5 elements, bug fixes and speed improvements.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Brightcove, the leading online video platform, today announced plans tosupport WebM, an open Web media project and the open sourcing of the VP8video codec, ...

Adobe released Flash Player 10.2 on February 8; here's a bullet list of the new features: Stage Video, a "hardware accelerated video pipeline" for more efficient video playback. The key thing to note ...

Sure, HTML5 adds support for Web video that doesn't need Flash. But there are many reasons Adobe's plug-in still is necessary, YouTube says. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...