Google announces WebM open media format

At Google I/O conference: WebM, a new project that will attempt to offer a standard, open format for audio and video on the web.

WebM includes:

• VP8, a high-quality video codec we are releasing today under a BSD-style, royalty-free license


• Vorbis, an already open source and broadly implemented audio codec


• a container format based on a subset of the Matroska media container

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