Even though many pundits think 4K will be delivered by streaming, there are plenty of households still with slower broadband for whom this will not be an option. Now, it seems, Google's free VP9 codec ...

Vidyo continues to advance the state of the art in video collaboration with today's release of a VP9 codec optimized for real-time video. Vidyo focused this ground-up VP9 implementation on optimizing ...

Google's VP9 video codec is getting a major boost today. While Mozilla, Google's own Chrome browser and a few video players like FFmpeg started supporting VP9 over the course of the last year, what ...

Google seems to be saying "Forget H.265 - our VP9 codec is here, now, and is better" Google have oddly found themselves in a great position to capitalise on the current 4K fervour with their VP9 codec ...

VP9 support is growing while H.265 support is sparse. Better bandwidth efficiency may be one reason why. Last week we did our Kranky Geek WebRTC Show, which was successful. Google, in its session had ...

YouTube has revealed that video buffering is no longer a thing. Thanks to the VP9 video codec, which is the default codec for YouTube’s HTML5 video player, YouTube claims that its users have already ...

YouTube teams up with several hardware makers such as Samsung, Sharp, Toshiba and ARM to adopt the new codec VP9 for the 4K content. YouTube may soon embrace the 4K resolution on its network.