After 5 years of work and over 2700 commits against the reference software, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) has ...

Google's long-awaited open-sourcing of the VP8 video codec has finally happened and both Mozilla and Opera are on board with it. The new codec and container combine decent quality with open source ...

Google is ending support for the H.264 video codec in its Chrome web browser, preferring its own WebM format, writes David Fox. In future, its resources will be “directed towards completely open codec ...

Google is reportedly planning to open the VP8 codec during the Google I/O conference next month, a move that could accelerate the adoption of HTML5 video.