Right now, a bunch of nerds on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Vancouver are making big decisions about the next big wave in web communications standards. And these decisions will have a ...

Google engineers have volunteered the company’s VP8 video codec for an emerging standards project, called WebRTC, that could provide a real time communications protocol for the Web. “We believe that ...

Proponents of WebRTC, the Web standard for real-time communications via browsers, are clearing a long-standing hurdle the effort has faced, with the choice of two different video codecs. The potential ...

Vidyo and Google have been working together for several years now with the majority of their work concentrating on the improvement of Google Hangouts’ video streaming capabilities. Now Google has ...

Radio World: What would you say is the most interesting recent trend in codecs? Tom Hartnett: By far, the inclusion of WebRTC clients in computer browsers. Essentially, every internet browser, desktop ...

There goes that plan to unite the industry behind one video single codec: Google intends to stick with VP8 as its default codec for real-time communication, even after Cisco won support from Mozilla ...

The developer version of Chrome now relies by default on Opus, a royalty-free audio compression technology designed for voice and music. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

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 ...

Google engineers have volunteered the company’s VP8 video codec for an emerging standards project, called WebRTC, that could provide a real time communications protocol for the Web. “We believe that ...