The Web giant has released a royalty-free video technology to counter H.264. Allies include Mozilla, Opera, and its own YouTube. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

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Almost a year after Google announced its open-source, royalty-free WebM video format, YouTube began transcoding newly uploaded videos into the format. YouTube says the majority of its most viewed ...

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. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

This week WebM, one of the two major video formats competing for use with HTML5 video, took a major stumble when the Mozilla browser announced support for competing H.264. Even though it's not royalty ...

Safari features support for WebM video playback in the second beta of macOS Big Sur 11.3 Beta, indicating that Apple's browser will finally support the format after failing to do so for almost 11 ...

After over a decade of availability, Apple has finally added support for Google's WebM video codec in Safari on macOS Big Sur 11.3. Google's video format WebM has existed since 2010 but for reasons ...

9to5Mac reported that Apple is now letting developers create extensions that modify some of the default Safari tabs with macOS Big Sur 11.3 beta, and it seems there’s more to come. With the release of ...

Google has published a pre-release WebM filter that gives Windows Vista and Windows 7 users the ability to watch WebM videos—including HTML5 video in Internet Explorer.

Google on Wednesday introduced a new, open source video format called WebM that Google hopes will become "a world-class media format for the open web." In other words, WebM is meant to be a video ...