With so much going on in online video, it's easy to forget that the industry is still in its infancy. The whole online video world can be flipped upside-down in a day, especially if a major company ...

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 ...

Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president for Internet Explorer, today announced the launch of a plug-in for Google’s Chrome Web browser that reinstates support for the H.264 video codec when used ...

Ever since Google announced its purchase of video codec company On2 in August 2009, there’s been an expectation that On2’s VP8 codec would someday be open-sourced and promoted as a new, open option ...