This week WebM, one of the two major video formats competing for use with HTML5 video, took a major stumble when the Mozilla browser announced support for competing H.264. Even though it's not royalty ...

Almost a year after Google announced its open-source, royalty-free WebM video format, YouTube began transcoding newly uploaded videos into the format. YouTube says the majority of its most viewed ...

Google on Wednesday introduced a new, open source video format called WebM that Google hopes will become "a world-class media format for the open web." In other words, WebM is meant to be a video ...

Google is ending support for the H.264 video codec in its Chrome web browser, preferring its own WebM format, writes David Fox. In future, its resources will be “directed towards completely open codec ...