The developers of Handbrake just announced the 0.10 update to their extremely popular and useful Open Source video transcoding product. Originally focused on ripping DVDs, the product now can be used ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. MOSCOW: The Graphics and Media Lab at Moscow State University recently released the results of ...
Chipmakers now can create processors that accelerate encoding and decoding of Google's royalty-free VP8 video format. Also, Opera builds in WebP image support. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...
This article assumes a basic understanding of video compression algorithms. For an introduction to video coders, see How video compression works. Announced in the fall of 2008, On2 Technologies' 8 th ...
[In response to reader questions and comments, this article was updated at 6:20 a.m. on Monday, May 24. See author's comments at the end of the article.—Ed] VP8 is now free, but if the quality is ...
VP8 video content can already be played on nearly all browsers, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Internet Explorer (via an addon), however, for VP8 to be successful it will need more than just support in ...
London, UK – 18 April 2013 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L), a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies company, announces support for the VP8 video codec in its ...
Nokia refuses to license patents it says are needed to use Google's video technology, sullying Google's earlier patent deal. But WebRTC could still spread VP8 widely, lowering Web video costs for ...
Despite the unbridled enthusiasm among bloggers for Google's newly announced free WebM codec, a digital video expert has reviewed the new VP8 specification and delivered a severely deflating technical ...
Google’s VP8 video compression format, which the company acquired from On2 Technologies, is an open standard and covered by a free patent license. That, however, didn’t stop MPEG LA, the guardians of ...
The WebM VP8 (G1) hardware decoder brings an unprecedented level of performance to enable all kinds of WebM video applications. It is the first hardware decoder in the market to encompass full ... The ...
VP8 is now supported natively on three of the five major browsers Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera, and is supported via a codec installation, on Internet Explorer as well. Safari is the only ...