Encoding.com has long provided an easy-to-use preset for encoding to H.264, the most popular HTML5 video format. With today’s announcement Encoding.com adds support for Ogg/Theora and WebM/VP8 both ...

Many may be wondering why Apple chose the H.264 standard for Safari’s HTML5 video over Ogg Theora, which Firefox and Opera support in their HTML5 video implementations (Google’s Chrome supports both).

Streaming video websites like YouTube face growing pressure from consumers to provide support for native standards-based Web video playback. The HTML5 video element provides the necessary ...

The online encoding service Encoding.com has expanded its portfolio of formats with two that get a lot of coverage, although not all that much actual use: WebM and Ogg Theora. That means that content ...

The Xiph.org Foundation announced today the official release of Theora 1.0. Theora is an open video codec that can be broadly used and redistributed without having to pay patent royalties. The latest ...

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 easier for people to distribute multimedia content.

The decision could mean third-party plug-ins needed to play multimedia content will be around for a long time The latest rewrite of the Web’s mother tongue won’t recommend the use of specific audio ...