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December 5, 2017 PC, Tablet

Introducing the Web Media Extension Package with OGG Vorbis and Theora support for Microsoft Edge

By Microsoft Edge Team

We've heard requests from many of our customers to support additional open-source formats in order to access a broader set of content on the To address this, we recently added support for the WebM container format and the VP9 and… Read more

September 8, 2015 Mobile, PC, Tablet

Announcing VP9 support coming to Microsoft Edge

By Jerry Smith

Today, we’re excited to announce that WebM/VP9 support is now in development in Microsoft VP9 is an open source video format that offers efficient compression to stream HD content at lower bitrates, and is well suited to UHD Initial support for… Read more