Google's decision to open source VP8 in the form of WebM was the opening salvo in yet another codec war. We take a look at encoding efficiency, output quality, and CPU horsepower required for playback of both WebM and H.264.
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Posted 30 Jul 2010
The company first to offer live streaming with Google's WebM format is now webcasting the first WebM event.
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Posted 28 Jul 2010
Product integration will let customers deliver audio and video to new markets.
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Posted 20 Jul 2010
Now that Google has open-sourced VP8 as part of its WebM initiative, the once-esoteric question "What is open source anyway?" takes a highly tactical turn
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Posted 28 Jun 2010
Android support is crucial to the fragmented mobile video experience, says Brightcove.
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Posted 22 Jun 2010
Mobile devices running a variety of operating systems will soon have access to a richer, more interactive web.
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Posted 21 Jun 2010
Adobe promises more stability and better performance for Flash on the Mac, but for now, only Windows gets hardware acceleration
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Posted 18 Jun 2010
Google seems more concerned with modifying its WebM FAQ than it is with helping the online video world understand the practical and financial benefits of an open-source competitor to H.264.
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Posted 10 Jun 2010
A new survey-based report by StreamingMedia.com's Jan Ozer reveals just how widespread iPad and HTML5 Video support is today, and how prevalent it will be in the next 18 months.
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Posted 08 Jun 2010
Apple's "HTML5 Showcase" shows off some very cool things, but they're not actually web standards—they're specific functionalities found in the Safari and QuickTime product stack
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Posted 08 Jun 2010
Apple supports emerging technologies, says Apple's CEO, and that's why it has no interest in Adobe Flash.
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Posted 02 Jun 2010
A few weeks into Google's "open sourcing" of VP8, the move has generated more questions than answers
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Posted 02 Jun 2010
Just days after Google announced its royalty-free Web video format, a Spanish company is offering live HTTP steaming.
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Posted 26 May 2010
VP8 is now free, but if the quality is substandard, who cares? Well, it turns out that the quality isn't substandard, so that's not an issue, but neither is it twice the quality of H.264 at half the bandwidth. See for yourself.
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Posted 20 May 2010
Flash Access is another step in the path leading to HTTP Streaming and Flash Player 10.1
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Posted 11 May 2010
As more and more high-definition (HD) content is acquired, edited, and pushed out to the web, mobile, devices and set-top boxes, the demand for a higher-quality user experience is rapidly followed by a need for hardware acceleration. But what exactly is hardware acceleration?
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Posted 27 Apr 2010
New Apple API will let Adobe take advantage of hardware-accelerated video decoding for Flash Player on the Mac, though not in 10.1
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Posted 26 Apr 2010
Despite the buzz about 3D TV, the true star of the show was workflow automation, as exemplified in new releases from ViewCast, Telestream, and Microsoft
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Posted 16 Apr 2010
Adobe needs to stop focusing on the iPad and start emphasizing the strengths of its content creation and delivery ecosystem
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Posted 14 Apr 2010
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