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'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 [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 ...

Back when Google closed on the On2 acquisition, I wrote a blog post entitled Google Closes On 2 Acquisition - Better check your Wallet. The wallet reference related to the fact that Google donating ...

From now on, any video you upload to YouTube will be transcoded into Google’s WebM codec, joining the “videos that make up 99% of views on the site or nearly 30% of all videos.” Google explains it to ...

Back in August of 2009, when the news of Google’s acquisition of On2 Technologies first became public, I proffered the following prognostication: Maybe Google will open-source latest-generation VP8, ...

The first day of Google‘s I/O conference was short on exciting consumer news–no Google TV, no Android 2.2, just a bunch of developer tools (I know, I know, it’s a developer conference, but we’re not ...

Ever since Google announced its purchase of video codec company On2 in August 2009, there's been an expectation that On2's VP8 codec would someday be open-sourced and promoted as a new, open option ...

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 ...

Apple's latest iOS 15 beta includes options to enable the WebM audio codec in Safari, hinting at full integration when the operating system launches this fall. Currently available as an option in the ...

Apple today released the fifth beta of iOS 15 to developers. As we get closer to the final release next month, the update brought only a few minor changes to the operating system. However, one ...

Google has unveiled WebM, a royalty-free video codec, at its I/O conference in San Francisco Credit: Photo: Google The WebM codec is based on VP8, a web technology that Google acquired in February ...