The WebM container is based on Matroska, with VP8 video and Ogg Vorbis audio streams packed inside -- Google says the format is efficient enough to support playback on lower-power devices like ...

It's a brand new, open-source video format that Google hopes will hit the mainstream. Essentially, Google is trying to open up the VP8 codec, which they acquired when they purchased the company On2.

Google opens VP8 codec, aims to nuke H.264 with WebM Google's long-awaited open-sourcing of the VP8 video codec has finally … ...

Earlier this week, Google announced - via the Chromium Blog - that it would be dropping support for the H.264 video codec in HTML5 video in upcoming releases of Chrome. Instead, the search-giant ...

When Google unveiled the WebM project at Google I/O a few weeks ago, one partner's browser support was notably absent: Google's. Sure, they added VP8/WebM support to Chromium, the open-source ...

Google has announced the intention to remove support for H.264 video playback from its Crome browser to "enable open innovation," yet still apparently plans to promote Adobe Flash.