No, you’re not reading that headline wrong. Last month, Google announced that it was removing support for H.264 video playback via the HTML5 <video> tag in its Chrome browser. The odd part about that ...

The latest nightly builds of desktop Firefox now support the ubiquitous H.264 video and MP3 codecs. When the current Firefox Nightly arrives in final form later this year, Firefox users will no longer ...

Mozilla should pick up and use H.264 codecs that are already installed on the user's system. I've previously written about a variety of reasons this would be a bad idea, especially on Windows. Really ...

In Web video encoding, there are two major standards. Google just announced it's backing its own WebM over the codec Apple and Microsoft support. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

This article appears in the August/September issue of Streaming Media magazine. Click here for your free subscription. If you produce Windows Media files, your encoder is working with code supplied by ...

Update: For a further discussion of the patent-related issues and costs, see my follow-up post, By dropping H.264, is Google avoiding a trap or walking into one? Just when you thought the World Wide ...

StreamingMedia.com on Monday announced the publication of two new reports that suggest that Apple’s QuickTime H.264 video encoding has gained ground on Microsoft Windows Media. The winner, however, ...

Microsoft has released a Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome so as to enable H.264-encoded video on HTML5 by using built-in capabilities available on Windows 7. As you may recall, less ...