Apart from webM, Google also promises to continue supporting the H.264 encoding for videos. Additionally, it has expressed its wish to develop an HTML5 video player as well.

Winamp has a strong user’s base and has evolved with time continuously. Keeping up with this, Winamp has introduced a VP8 decoder in its latest build of version 5.581.

Intel has plans for supporting the hardware acceleration of WebM videos. This news was confirmed by an Intel executive who said that the technology will be available on an Atom CE Systems-on-Chips(SOC) if VP8 gains popularity.

Mozilla is trying to incorporate the VP8 codec of WebM video into the HTML5 web video specification. Most other browsers are in support of H.264 currently.

The Chromium browser on Ubuntu now supports the VP8 video codec. To try a WebM video, you will need to install the latest daily build from the Chromium daily build PPA at launchpad.

Newteevee has recently reported that Google will possibly open-source the VP8 video codec next month. VP8 was developed by On2, the company which Google acquired in February.