Earlier this week, Google announced - via the Chromium Blog - that it would be dropping support for the H.264 video codec in HTML5 video in upcoming releases of Chrome. Instead, the search-giant will ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...