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Google releases H1 hardware encoder for VP8 tech

...Google has released a version of its VP8 video encoder and decoder designed to be built into hardware. The hardware... Read more

16 March, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Google updates VP8 video codec

...Google released the 'Bali' version of its VP8 software on Tuesday, and announced a new 'Cayuga' version that is set... Read more

10 March, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

US Justice Department investigates web video patents

...licensing group MPEG-LA are stifling a Google video-encoding technology called VP8, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The California State Attorney General... Read more

4 March, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Google's video plan faces MPEG-LA patent challenge

...for patent owners to inform them of patents they believe Google's VP8 technology uses. In "offer[ing] to facilitate development of a joint licence... Read more

14 February, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Google revises VP8 for WebM codec

...One month after releasing its open-source, royalty-free VP8 video compression technology, Google is already working on significant revisions to the... Read more

21 June, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

Chrome adds open-source WebM video support

...for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Google has baked in support for the VP8- and Ogg Vorbis-powered, next-generation WebM codec. The developer's build... Read more

4 June, 2010 by Seth Rosenblatt

Google tweaks WebP to take on PNG and JPEG

...WebM, Google's open video format, which is also based on the VP8 compression format. Google introduced WebP in October 2010, and has updated it... Read more

18 November, 2011 by David Meyer
Chrome 10: a first look

Chrome 10: a first look

Google's Chrome 10 delivers a full range of competitive features, and is among the most standards-compliant and fastest browsers available. Read more

10 March, 2011 by Seth Rosenblatt

Freescale unveils quad-core mobile processor

...go up to as many as eight cores. Hardware support for the VP8 video compression technology is another feature of Freescale's i.MX 6... Read more

4 January, 2011 by David Meyer

Mozilla pushes ahead with Firefox 4 upgrades

...technology, H.264. Mozilla and Google are working to make WebM's VP8 codec a standard part of the new specification for built-in video... Read more

16 June, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

Google adds VP8 video tech to standards group

...Google's VP8 encoding technology now has a home at the Internet Engineering Task Force... Read more

24 January, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Google speeds up WebM video software

...and adding a duck-related code name. The new component of the VP8 codec — called Aylesbury after the domesticated duck breed — is better at both... Read more

2 November, 2010 by Stephen Shankland
Bigasoft Total Video Converter 3.6.20.4501

Bigasoft Total Video Converter 3.6.20.4501

...RMVB, FLV, F4V, MOV, HD, AVCHD videos (MOD, TOD, MTS, M2TS), WebM, VP8, OGM, WTV, Apple ProRes MOV, and RealPlayer videos. The amazing video converter... Read more

4 May, 2012
Bigasoft BlackBerry Ringtone Maker 1.8.2

Bigasoft BlackBerry Ringtone Maker 1.8.2

...DivX, MP4, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, MKV, RM, MOV, XviD, 3GP, WebM, VP8 video and more to BlackBerry ringtones MP3, and transfer ringtones to your... Read more

3 April, 2012

Intel buys RealNetworks patents and software

...area of digital video. Codecs such as H.264 or Google's VP8 are used to encode and decode video, a task that's crucial... Read more

27 January, 2012 by Stephen Shankland

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