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Google Says YouTube Users Watched 25 Billion Hours Of VP9 Video In The Last Year

Google's VP9 video codec -- its more efficient replacement for H.264 -- powered 25 billion hours of video streaming on YouTube in the last 12 months, the company announced today. Google argues that

YouTube Now Streams HTML5 Video By Default

Here is one more nail in Flash's coffin: starting today, YouTube defaults to using HTML5 video on all modern browsers, including Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and the beta versions of Firefox. YouTube fi

Google’s VP9 Video Codec Gets Backing from ARM, Nvidia, Sony And Others, Gives 4K Video Streaming A Fighting Chance

Google's <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9">VP9 video codec</a> is getting a major boost today. While <a target="_blank" href="http://gigaom.com/2013/12/09/firefox-gets-support