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Good News from Germany 6 Aug 2013 | 09:09 am
Today a court in Mannheim, Germany, ruled that VP8 does not infringe a patent owned and asserted by Nokia. This decision is an important and positive step towards the WebM Project's ultimate goal: ens...
VP9 Lands in Chrome Dev Channel 2 Jul 2013 | 02:07 am
VP9, the WebM Project's next-generation video codec, was recently enabled by default in Google Chrome Dev channel. A key goal of the WebM Project is to speed up the pace of video-compression innovatio...
VP9 Codec Nears Completion 11 May 2013 | 12:19 pm
Last week, we hosted over 100 guests at a summit meeting for VP9, the WebM Project’s next-generation open video codec. We were particularly happy to welcome our friends from YouTube, who spoke about t...
Onward! 14 Mar 2013 | 01:35 am
Giddy up! Exciting things are happening with codec development here at the WebM Project. Of particular note is our recent announcement of an agreement with MPEG LA and eleven patent holders for a roy...
W3C CEO Jaffe on VP8 Licensing 12 Mar 2013 | 09:27 pm
It's great to read supportive statements like this one from Jeff Jaffe stemming from our recent announcement of an agreement with MPEG LA and eleven patent holders for a royalty-free license in suppor...
VP8 and MPEG LA 9 Mar 2013 | 07:34 am
Today Google Inc. and MPEG LA, LLC announced agreements that will result in MPEG LA ending its efforts to form a VP8 patent pool. The arrangement with MPEG LA and 11 patent owners grants a license to...
Wikimedia Launches HTML5 Media Player with WebM Support 15 Nov 2012 | 04:44 am
The Wikimedia Foundation — the awesome folks behind Wikipedia — has deployed an advanced HTML5 media player across its network of award-winning websites. The player accepts audio and video in the roya...
Sixth Generation VP8 Hardware Accelerators Released 9 Nov 2012 | 05:16 am
Today we’re launching the G1 decoder “Fairway” and the H1 encoder “Foxtail”, the sixth generation VP8 hardware IP cores.By redesigning the DMA engine architecture in the Fairway decoder we’ve improved...
