Neowin News Feed for: Vp8

Nokia goes after Google over VP8 video codec

John Callaham — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:07:24 +0000

Nokia has accused Google of trying to force the VP8 video codec on others as part of Google's WebM project, claiming VP8 is not truly open source and does not offer anything more than the H.264 codec Read more...

Microsoft adding H.264 to Chrome as Google removes it

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:57:10 +0000

In the heat of the browser wars between Google and Microsoft, a flurry of comments, accusations and announcements have been made, all in attempt to trump one-another. Today's strange announcement comes from Microsoft, where they... Read more...

H.264 video codec standard to stay royalty-free

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:18:40 +0000

MPEG LA announced earlier today that they would make H.264 permanently royalty-free, to keep business and consumers' minds at ease. The codec standard was developed to reduce bit rates over the previous codec standards, and is... Read more...

Google I/O keynote Day one roundup

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 19 May 2010 20:28:20 +0000

Today Google kicked off their first day of their keynote, streaming the broadcast live on YouTube. This is Google's largest event of the year, with more than 5,000 developers, featuring 80 sessions and over... Read more...

Microsoft planning to support VP8 in Internet Explorer 9 - with a catch

Tom Warren — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:00:25 +0000

Microsoft said on Wednesday that it plans to introduce support for the VP8 video codec in Internet Explorer 9. But there's a catch, the user must have the VP8 codec installed on Windows. Google announced a... Read more...

Google to make VP8 free, HTML5 to benefit

giga — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:48:01 +0000

Sources are indicating that Google is set to open up the VP8 codec that they recently acquired from last year’s On2 purchase. NewTeeVee reports that sources familiar with the matter have confirmed Google’s plan to... Read more...