Google and WebM open source Video
Posted: 23 May 2010, 09:54
Google officially announced the forthcoming release of an open source, royalty-free video format called WebM. Using the VP8 codec that Google acquired from On2 last February, the format is backed by fellow browser makers Mozilla and Opera.
While WebM is not currently part of the HTML5 spec, it will be added as a supported part of the <video> tag for the Chrome (Chrome), Firefox (Firefox) and Opera (Opera) browsers.
In addition to announcing WebM, Google (Google) also told the audience that WebM support will be coming to YouTube (YouTube) as part of its HTML5 experiment.
http://mashable.com/2010/05/19/google-webm-html5/
http://www.webmproject.org/
While WebM is not currently part of the HTML5 spec, it will be added as a supported part of the <video> tag for the Chrome (Chrome), Firefox (Firefox) and Opera (Opera) browsers.
In addition to announcing WebM, Google (Google) also told the audience that WebM support will be coming to YouTube (YouTube) as part of its HTML5 experiment.
http://mashable.com/2010/05/19/google-webm-html5/
http://www.webmproject.org/