If you happen to have any videos stored at Google’s Google Video service, better head over and grab them. Google Inc. announced in an e-mail to users that from Friday, April 29 onward, that it is shutting down the service.…
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H.264 versus Google’s VP8
We have H.264, the tried-and-true industry codec for high-quality multimedia compression that has found itself caught up in a larger battle of open versus proprietary versus licensed standards for Web multimedia distribution. But let me just give you a short…
VP8 Tools for WebM
Google wrapped up Vorbis and VP8 into WebM and is offering it as open source to help drive a fully open standard for media online including video. Nearly everyone and their brother have jumped on board and so it’s time…
How do you try WebM?
If you want to try WebM, the open video format released by Google, you first need a browser that supports it. Today, the easiest way is downloading a rough developer-oriented test version of two browsers that will have support built-in:…
Kudos, WebM video!
Since the day WebM join the list of open and freely usable Web formats, video finally became a first-class citizen of the Web. That was a big deal, and the day will always be remembered in the history of the…
What are the browsers with webM support?
WebM video files play directly in your web browser using a new technology called HTML5. No plug-ins are required, but you must install a web browser that supports WebM files. Whats great about WebM video is that its a very…
Can WebM videos be frame captured by Fast Video Indexer?
The WebM project is dedicated in developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone. WebM is supported by Mozilla, Opera, Adobe, Google and more than seventy other publishers and software and hardware vendors.…
WebM is a codec–but what’s a codec?
A codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding and/or decoding a digital data stream or signal.A codec encodes a data stream or signal for transmission, storage or encryption, or decodes it for playback or editing. Codecs are…
Why do I want webM?
WebM is an open media file format designed for the web. Its files consist of video streams compressed with the VP8 video codec and audio streams compressed with the Vorbis audio codec. The file structure is based on the Matroska…
Fast Video Software
Looking for fast video software? Starting out in capturing images in videos is tough. I know … I’ve been there. Importing a video clip takes forever, you’re confused by the video editing time line, menus, buttons and all that jazz.…