This article appears in the February/March 2012 issue of Streaming Media magazine, the annual Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook. When I was 6 years old, I had metal-capped front teeth, a lazy eye, ...

The number of videos on the Web that are now compatible with HTML5 has shot up to 63 percent from just 10 percent a year ago, according to video sharing site Mefeedia. Lance Whitney Contributing ...

The native video support in HTML5, which includes MP4, WebM and Ogg. See H.264, WebM, Ogg Theora, Ogg Vorbis and HTML5. HTML5 VIDEO FORMATS Video Audio Format Codec Codec MP4 H.264 AAC WebM ...

Nuanti, a company that develops Web browsing technologies, has produced a high-performance Ogg Theora decoder for Microsoft's Silverlight browser plugin. Nuanti's Highgate Media Suite will enable ...

Among the announcements made at today’s Google I/O keynote is WebM, a new open-source, royalty-free video format based around the VP8 codec intended for use with HTML5 video. The WebM project’s goal ...

A site called Vid.ly this week is debuting its answer to the emerging battle between Google, Microsoft and others over the future of HTML5 video standards. Vid.ly represents an end run around the ...

I've read about how HTML5 will change the way I use the web, but it seems like the biggest example of HTML5 in action is on sites like YouTube—which don't support ...

Netflix has announced plans to adopt the emerging HTML5 video format in place of Silverlight. The subscription service has been exploring new plugins since Microsoft confirmed that it would end ...

Erika Trautman is the CEO of Rapt Media. Cassette tapes, 8-tracks, and … Flash. All three of these mediums need a player to work, and all three mediums are either dead or dying. Just as CDs replaced ...

YouTube made waves Wednesday evening when it announced a Flash-less HTML5 video player. And now, mere months after rolling out a mobile-friendly site for iPhone and ...