Microsoft has released an H.264 video plug-in for Google Chrome on Windows today, following the debut of a similar plug-in for Firefox back in last year. Meanwhile, the company has also confirmed that ...

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. Basically, ...

The article makes a very good point about not suing until it is profitable to do so... In the case of H.264, it is now so widely used that if some entity wanted to sue they would have likely done it ...

This presents a problem for content providers who will need to support an additional codec to provide broad access. WebM is supported by Firefox 4, Opera 10.60 and later, and Chrome. H.264 is ...

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 browser ...

Microsoft has announced a plug-in for Google’s Chrome web browser that allows Chrome on Windows to play H.264 web video through the HTML5 tag. The new plug-in comes on the heels of Google’s decision ...

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. According to Google ...

Even if you don't believe all the hype about HTML5, sooner or later, you'll need to start encoding some video to WebM format. Maybe for internal experimentation, for a pay-per-view or subscription ...

WebM is a royalty-free media file format designed for the web. Today, most web browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, etc., support WebM media files. This means you can ...

Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president for Internet Explorer, today announced the launch of a plug-in for Google’s Chrome Web browser that reinstates support for the H.264 video codec when used ...