Patents management company MPEG LA announced agreements with Google, granting the Internet giant a license to techniques that may be essential to the VP8 video codec that the Internet giant backs. VP8 ...
Mozilla will lobby for the VP8 video codec to become the recommended standard video technology on the web, the company's CEO says. Mozilla will propose the idea to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) ...
Google caused confusion with talk of patents, but it turns out company's VP8 video codec is safe for open source use Responding to my article here two weeks ago, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) ...
Nokia refuses to license patents it says are needed to use Google's video technology, sullying Google's earlier patent deal. But WebRTC could still spread VP8 widely, lowering Web video costs for ...
It looks like the May release of WebM wasn't the final word for Google's Web video technology: there's now room for experimentation. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...
In reply to a email asking his thoughts on Google's announcement of the royalty-free WebM video codec, Steve Jobs reportedly simply forwarded back the critical expose profiled yesterday by ...
Today, at their Google I/O Conference, Google announced that they would open source the VP8 codec that they acquired along with On2 in a deal that closed early this year. By the time the announcement ...
Developers Ronald Bultje, David Conrad, and Jason Garret-Glaser are creating a native VP8 video codec implementation for the open source FFmpeg project. The aim of this effort is to bring first-class ...
When Google announced a deal to acquire video technology company On2 last year, the move generated speculation that the search giant was aiming to liberate the VP8 codec in order to accelerate the ...
Patents management company MPEG LA announced agreements with Google, granting the Internet giant a license to techniques that may be essential to the VP8 video codec that the Internet giant backs. VP8 ...
The news came not from Skype PR, but from John Luther, a Google product manager, writing on the WebM Project blog: Skype is going with the VP8 video codec for one-to-one video calling. There are some ...
The makers of the AV1 video format have started the Open Audio Codec.