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Google Releases Open-Source Web Video Codec, Further Complicating HTML5 Video

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On Wednesday, Google gave a $120 million dollar gift to the web…a new HTML5 compliant video format.  The $120 million price comes from what Google paid to acquire On2 Technologies, the creator of the video format.  The format or codec itself is called VP8 (which has actually been around for a while) but Google has christened it as WebM.  It’s intended to compete with the other leading...