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 has announced the VP8 codec as part of a new format it calls WebM, which is a container (based on Matroska) that includes both VP8 video and Ogg Vorbis audio streams.

Google opened up the Google I/O developer conference today with a couple of major announcements. First up, Google has announced plans for a new open source web video standard called WebM ...

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's decision to open source VP8 in the form of WebM was the opening salvo in yet another codec war. We take a look at encoding efficiency, output quality, and CPU horsepower required for playback ...

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 ...

Google's decision to open source VP8 in the form of WebM was the opening salvo in yet another codec war. We take a look at encoding efficiency, output quality, and CPU horsepower required for playback ...

Earlier this week we reported that Google is ending end support for H.264 on its Chrome browser. The company has reiterated its plans to push its own open WebM video codec via Flash-like plug-ins for ...