It's a brand new, open-source video format that Google hopes will hit the mainstream. Essentially, Google is trying to open up the VP8 codec, which they acquired when they purchased the company On2.

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 ...

Basically, Google is launching the VP8 video codec as open source today, and the new WebM format will use VP8 for video, OGG Vorbis for audio, and a container based on Matroska.

Google announced on Wednesday that it has released its VP8 video codec into open source under the WebM open Web media project.

After creating one for Firefox, Microsoft has announced that it has released a plugin to provide H.264 support for Chrome. The company also has some questions for Google about WebM: Microsoft ...

Google's decision to open source VP8 in the form of WebM was the opening salvo in yet another codec war. We take a look at encoding efficiency, output quality, and CPU horsepower required for playback ...