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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Microsoft is playing nicely with Google. At least, Microsoft is adding support for two Google-supported, open source video codecs: WebM and VP9. Both will be included in an upcoming update for the ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...