Google's apparent decision to open source the VP8 video codec will mostly be discussed today in terms of Google's ambitions, about Google TV, and about HTML5. (Image from CNET.) But there's another ...

Google may have just entered a new battlefront with Apple at the "I/O" developers conference when it took the wraps off its plans for the VP8 video codec. While this battle is not as transparent, or ...

Google may have just entered a new battlefront with Apple at the "I/O" developers conference when it took the wraps off its plans for the VP8 video codec. While this battle is not as transparent, or ...

Market-leading IP provider Arm and semiconductor companies AMD and NVIDIA have joined the Alliance for Open Media, which also includes Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix.

One of the things that makes it possible to stream 4K Ultra HD video over the internet is video compression: it takes a lot of bandwidth to stream a 4K video, but it takes a lot less to stream a H.265 ...

Apple announced on Mac OS Forge today that they have open sourced their Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC). ALAC was introduced in 2004 as OS X’s core audio codec to compress audio files 40-60 percent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tapping into one of the biggest trends in information technology this year, Cisco will be open sourcing its H.264 codec for high-definition online video. The codec will be available to download for ...

When Google announced a deal to acquire video technology company On2 last year, the move generated speculation that the search giant was aiming to liberate the VP8 codec in order to accelerate the ...

On MacOSForge, Apple has announced that they are releasing the Apple Lossless Audio Codec as an open source project: The Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) is a lossless audio codec developed by Apple ...