The future of WebM, a free new Google technology for streaming video, is uncertain, but already it's changed the industry. Here's a look how.

WebM has bolted out of the starting gate with the backing of Mozilla, Opera, Google and 40 other Web players (Techmeme). Even Microsoft is going to support WebM.

Announced at Google i/O today, WebM is a newly open-sourced multimedia format, consisting primarily of the video format formerly known as VP8. The goal is to provide an open, easy video experience ...

On the first day of Google's I/O developer conference 2010, the company announced a new format for online video, WebM, which is based on a video codec that Google acquired the year before. With ...

WebM is Google’s solution out of this video mess. Simply put, Google open sourced the VP8 video format, and released it royalty free for everyone to include in their products.

The WebM technology includes the VP8 video codec, which Google acquired as part of its $140 million buyout of On2 Technologies earlier this year, and Ogg Vorbis, an open source audio codec that's ...

Because WebM was technically capable of serving YouTube videos, Google now hoped to join Mozilla and Opera in turning back support for H.264 video on the web and replacing the H.264 codec with a ...

With Google's announcement that it's dropping H.264 support in Chrome in favor of WebM, it's time to start looking at the format. Here's a look at how to get the best WebM quality.

Google on Wednesday announced WebM, a new open-source, royalty-free video format based around the VP8 codec for HTML5 video.

Among the announcements made at today’s Google I/O keynote is WebM, a new open-source, royalty-free video format based around the VP8 codec intended for use with HTML5 video. The WebM project ...

In an effort to allay fears over the patent status of its WebM video format, Google has announced the creation of the WebM Community Cross-License Initiative, a group of organizations that promise ...