Skype Now Supports The Open Source VP8 Video Codec | Linux Today

Skype Now Supports The Open Source VP8 Video Codec

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 5, 2011

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“In a blog post, John Luther, the Project Manager of Google’s
WebM Project, has announced that Skype now supports the VP8 codec.
The VP8 support is already available for Windows users who are
using Skype 5.5. VP8 will be used to encode and decode the Skype
video call if both the caller and receiver have clients that
supports the codec.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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