Customer Login
- Username
- Password
|
Our Company
Our Clients
Examples
Case Studies
Our Services
| Google unveils open sourcing of VP8 video standard |
| Tuesday, 25 May 2010 00:00 |
|
Search engine giant Google has announced the open sourcing of the VP8 video standard, as the company moves to make online streaming video open to all developers.
The VP8 codec will be released as part of the WebM project, which is supported by the Opera and Mozilla web browers. Google said that all video which are 720p and larger on video sharing website YouTube, will be released by the end of the month. Google's plans have been backed by a number of hardware manufacturers including Qualcomm, AMB and ARM. A range of software vendors have also endorsed the project. Sundar Pichai, vice-president of product marketing at Google, said: "We think video should be a free and open option for all. It's really important to have high quality and open video." Kevin Lynch, chief technology officer at Adobe added that the company is currently working with Google on a range of devices with Flash and hopes to distribute VP8 to over a billion people in the first year through Flash.  |