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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Skype has adopted Google’s open source video codec VP8 as its default solution for video conferencing, according to a blog post from Google Product Manager John Luther. The new Skype for Windows ...

At Google IO, the Google team talked repeatedly about having done "a thorough legal analysis" into the VP8 video codec to make sure it doesn't infringe any patents . "We're very confident with the ...