Microsoft has released an H.264 video plug-in for Google Chrome on Windows today, following the debut of a similar plug-in for Firefox back in last year. Meanwhile, the company has also confirmed that ...

Google opened up the Google I/O developer conference today with a couple of major announcements. First up, Google has announced plans for a new open source web video standard called WebM. Basically, ...

The article makes a very good point about not suing until it is profitable to do so... In the case of H.264, it is now so widely used that if some entity wanted to sue they would have likely done it ...

This presents a problem for content providers who will need to support an additional codec to provide broad access. WebM is supported by Firefox 4, Opera 10.60 and later, and Chrome. H.264 is ...

When Google unveiled the WebM project at Google I/O a few weeks ago, one partner’s browser support was notably absent: Google’s. Sure, they added VP8/WebM support to Chromium, the open-source browser ...

Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president for Internet Explorer, today announced the launch of a plug-in for Google’s Chrome Web browser that reinstates support for the H.264 video codec when used ...