Content providers like Brightcove have signed up to support WebM as part of a full HTML5 video solution. This is something that is supported by many partners, not just Google and others. But they have committed to supporting everything.ĥ.

They have about 1.2 million videos available today and will be working through their back catalog over time. Every video on YouTube will be transcoded into WebM. WebM will also be included in Google Chrome and Opera.Ĥ. You can get super-early WebM builds of Firefox 4 pre-alpha today. We will include support for WebM in Firefox. You can find out more about the project at its new site. The VP8 codec will be combined with the Vorbis audio codec and a subset of the Matroska container format to build a new standard for Open Video on the web called WebM.

The VP8 codec represents a vast improvement in quality-per-bit over Theora and is comparable in quality to H.264.Ģ. VP8 is a high-quality video codec that Google acquired when they purchased the company On2. Google will be releasing VP8 under an open source and royalty-free basis. Five important items of note today relating to Mozilla’s support for the VP8 codec:ġ.

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