With the growth of Online Video and increasing Quality and Size of the Videos there was also demand for a high quality codec that is capable of delivering HD videos highly compressed but still in in high quality. Of course also the Audio-Component of a Video-File needs to be compressed, therefore another open technology is used: Vorbis (also known as Ogg Vorbis), a free open source software for lossy audio-compression, and therefore an alternative to MP3.Ĭheck out some test files in WebM Format here. VP8 is considered to be one of the few standards that can keep up with the modern MPEG4 compression standards both in quality and filesize. The video content of a WebM file is compressed with VP8, a technology developed by ON2, which was recently acquired by Google, who then went on to make VP8 an open and free technology. WebM is based on two open codecs for compressing the video and audio component of the content. It shall offer an alternative to commercial Formats such as h264, MPEG4 and MPEG2, that are patented and require a commercial licence. WebM is a new open standard for compressed Video Content.
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