Everyone loves to watch video online. The current video technologies available on the web are either not really designed for the web or is a proprietary technology. Those are considered as old technologies since a newcomer is here.. Welcome to the new world of WebM! WebM is an open, royalty-free media file format designed for the web.

WebM video codec files consist of:

  • WebM video streams compressed with the VP8 video codec
  • WebM audio streams compressed with the Vorbis audio codec
  • WebM file structure is based on the Matroska media container

Why will WebM take over as the de-facto standard video codec for the web?
WebM will be supported by all three major browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera. WebM technology will also be rolled-out across YouTube, the most popular online video site. Name the companies supporting WebM, and you’ll know that WebM is taking over by storm: Mozilla, Adobe & Google through to AMD, NVIDIA and ARM.

Benefits of WebM video

  • Free non-proprietary video codec
  • High quality video
  • Provides better bandwidth efficiency
  • Designed to take advantage of hardware from mobile devices to powerful multicore desktop machines

Conclusion? Better quality and fast videos for everyone! If you would like to get updated with tips like this whenever I post them, please subscribe here Get Latest Updates.

Source: WebM Project


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