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VLC 1.1.0 RC with WebM Support Released
VideoLanProject has just launched the first release candidate build of VLC 1.1.0, codenamed as The luggage. VideoLanClient is a cross-platform media player, which takes pride in its exhaustive codec...
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FluMotion Offers webM Based Live Streaming
Barely a week ago, Google unveiled the new open audio-video platform dubbed webM. Since, then we have seen a flurry of activities surrounding webM. Opera integrated webM into its main trunk, Firefox is...
View ArticleIntel to Provide Hardware Support for WebM
Intel has plans for supporting the hardware acceleration of WebM videos. This news was confirmed by an Intel executive who said that the technology will be available on an Atom CE Systems-on-Chips(SOC)...
View ArticleFirefox Nightly Build Gets WebM Support
Earlier last month, Google, Mozilla and Opera announced a new competitor to the H.264 codec for HTML5, WebM. Opera had already released new builds with WebM support, and today Mozilla will be...
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VLC Media Player v1.1.0 Released – GPU Decoding, WebM, Extensions and More
VideoLanClient (VLC) has been updated to v1.1.0. This new release, which has been codenamed ‘The Luggage’, introduces some much needed improvements to VLC, including support for GPU accelerated...
View ArticleWinamp now supports WebM Playback
NO matter how many feature rich or lightweight media players come into the market, there are people who still swear by Winamp. Winamp is extremely popular because of its low memory footprint and for...
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Google Gets Aggressive About WebM, Decides to Drop H.264 Support from Chrome
Google has announced that it will be dropping support for H.264 in future versions of Chrome, and instead focus on high quality open codecs. Although Google’s announcement is surprising, it’s not...
View ArticleMicrosoft: Take That Google, We Just Added H.264 Support For Chrome Users
Yesterday would have been a very eventful day at Google and Microsoft after Google accused Microsoft of stealing their search results and displaying it in the competitive search engine Bing. The day...
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YouTube Transcodes All new Videos to WebM Format, Re-Encodes Existing Ones
YouTube has already worked on transcoding all videos with the highest views on YouTube to the WebM format. This transcoding covers nearly 30% of all YouTube videos and makes up for 99% of the total...
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Google and 16 Other Companies Come Together to Form the WebM Community...
I have always advocated the use of royalty free codecs (first Ogg-Theora and then WebM) for the HTML5 <video> tag. The WebM movement has been slowly but surely gaining momentum since its...
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