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Royalty Deadline for H.264 Extended, But It’s Still Bad for the Web
As if the web’s video codec issues weren’t complex enough, the group that controls the licensing and royalties for the H.264 video codec has announced that H.264 will remain royalty-free until the end...
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Miro’s New Multi-Format Video Converter Rocks
The team behind the Miro project has released a new video converter tool that makes it dead easy to publish videos on the web that work in all browsers. It’s called, appropriately enough, the Miro...
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Microsoft Says Web Video in IE9 Is All About H.264
Microsoft’s next browser will support native playback of videos using HTML5, but it will only support H.264, and not its more open alternatives. In a post on the official IEBlog Thursday, Microsoft’s...
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MPEG LA Extends Web Video Licensing Moratorium Until the End of Time
The group that oversees patents on the H.264 video format has announced it will not charge royalties for H.264 videos that are freely broadcast on the internet. The MPEG Licensing Association (MPEG...
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Microsoft Puts H.264 Video Back in Google Chrome, Considers WebM for IE
Microsoft has announced a plug-in for Google’s Chrome web browser that allows Chrome on Windows to play H.264 web video through the HTML5 <video> tag. The new plug-in comes on the heels of...
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MPEG LA Starts the Search for VP8 patents
MPEG LA, the one-stop shop for motion video patent licenses, yesterday announced a call for patents essential to the VP8 video compression algorithm — the algorithm that is fundamental to Google’s...
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Google Pools WebM Video Supporters for Patent Protection
Google has announced the new WebM Community Cross License (CCL) initiative. The new group is designed to create a patent-safe haven around Google’s WebM video codec for HTML5 video. Members of the new...
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Idealism vs. Pragmatism: Mozilla Debates Supporting H.264 Video Playback
The HTML5 video element promised to be a game-changer for internet media publishing. It provided a vendor-neutral standards-based mechanism for conveying video content on the web without the need for...
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Firefox for Android, Now With Video That ‘Just Works’
H.264 video in Firefox for Android. Image: Scott Gilbertson. Mozilla has added support for the H.264 video codec to its Firefox for Android mobile web browser. Right now support is limited to Android...
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Mozilla Brings Native H.264 Video to Desktop Firefox [Updated]
Look Ma, H.264 video in Firefox, no Flash necessary. Image: Screenshot/Webmonkey. The latest nightly builds of desktop Firefox now support the ubiquitous H.264 video and MP3 codecs. When the current...
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