Over the past few years H.264 has become a de facto standard for delivering high-quality videos with relatively small file sizes. It’s proven a popular format for delivering internet video and many of ...

Just when the H.264 video codec is starting to take over a large portion of new Web videos, along comes Google to shake things up again. Today, along with Mozilla and Opera, it is launching the WebM ...

The MPEG Licensing Authority has indefinitely extended the royalty-free Internet broadcasting licensing of its H.264 video codec to end users. The move erases a key advantage of Google’s WebM rival ...

Over the weekend I read another few dozen articles on the whole Apple (AAPL) and Adobe (ADBE) debate and probably read through a thousand comments. Some of the posts I read were really good, but far ...

Look around you for devices that play digital video. Maybe you see a cable box, Blu-ray player, iPad, PlayStation 3, a Windows 7 PC or an Xbox. All these devices play video using the much-ballyhooed H ...

No, you’re not reading that headline wrong. Last month, Google announced that it was removing support for H.264 video playback via the HTML5 <video> tag in its Chrome browser. The odd part about that ...

Google used a lengthy blog post last Friday to quell the firestorm around its selective dropping of native H.264 video codec support in its Chrome browser and Chromium project, in favor of the VP8 ...