Microsoft announced the other day in a blog post that they are firmly backing the use of H.264 (as opposed to WebM) codec in HTML5 native expressions of embedded video. This comes shortly after Google announced that they would not support the MPEG LA licensed standard in its Chrome browser in favor of the open WebM standard. Read More →
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Sara Watson on February 4, 2011
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Jeff Whatcott on May 19, 2010
Google's release of the new open source, royalty-free WebM video format and VP8 codec is big news today. Brightcove is enthusiastically joining Google, Mozilla, Opera, Adobe, and others in pledging support for WebM. Our COO and CTO are on stage out at Google I/O to tell the crowd what we're up to. As you will see below, we believe that WebM is changing the landscape of online video in important ways that you'll want to understand. Read More →
