Among the announcements made at today’s Google I/O keynote is WebM, a new open-source, royalty-free video format based around the VP8 codec intended for use with HTML5 video. The WebM project’s goal ...

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The number of videos on the Web that are now compatible with HTML5 has shot up to 63 percent from just 10 percent a year ago, according to video sharing site Mefeedia. Lance Whitney Contributing ...

The fight for dominant video/audio format -- reminiscent of the old Betamax/VHS conflict -- turns nasty as HTML5 gains traction When I last talked about the Battle of the Video Format Titans — the ...

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Microsoft has released an HTML5 video-player extension for the Chrome browser to counteract Google’s decision to drop support for the most widely used HTML5 video format. Conversely, Microsoft has ...

There are hundreds of Internet video formats, but fortunately for you, you can ignore most of them. It’s all too easy to get tangled up in the seemingly endless number of video formats on the Web.

Now that we've established there's an evident delta in efficiency among a small group of popular media players, it's time to look at formats. All the previous testing was performed using a H.264 video ...