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Article | 21/05/2010 Google's WebM draws praise, critiques
The news this week of Google's open-source release of the HD video codec VP8 plays into the ongoing debate over which video codec browsers can use to ...
Article | 19/05/2010 Google to acquire voice and video codec company
Google plans to acquire video and VoIP (Voice over IP) codec developer Global IP Solutions (GIPS) for approximately 421 million Norwegian kronor (US$6...
Article | 23/02/2010 FSF to Google: Free the On2 video codec
In an open letter to Google, the Free Software Foundation has urged Google to open source a video codec that it acquired in its purchase of On2, compl...
Article | 3/07/2009 Vendor squabbles cause W3C to scrap codec requirement
The latest rewrite of the Web's mother tongue won't recommend the use of specific audio and video encoding formats that could make it cheaper and easi...