Google's Debargha Mukherjee reported that the AOMedia Video Model (AVM), the experimental software used to develop and verify the next-generation AV2 standard, is updated every four months. He pointed ...

Google's settlement with MPEG-LA is a fresh development in a decades-old story of software patents. Will it finally open video codec technology to open source developers? When Google announced last ...

Video-compression provider On2 Technologies said Tuesday it will release an open-source version of its video-compression technology, or codec. Video codecs are pieces of software that are used to ...

Google is reportedly planning to open the VP8 codec during the Google I/O conference next month, a move that could accelerate the adoption of HTML5 video.

I think people mostly stopped caring after the DivX ;-) 3.11 codec back in 2000, I don't think there's been a huge popular demand for better compression since. Anything since that has mainly been ...