Moovida media player quick to support Google’s open source VP8 format

Exciting news Moovida fans! Read our latest press release:

- Moovida is one of the first media players to support VP8, the Google owned video codec recently made open source -

Barcelona, Spain – May 20, 2010 – Fluendo Embedded, creator of Moovida – the free media software that plays and organizes media from a visually engaging interface, announces that its player is one of the first to support Google’s VP8 video format.

Moovida media player was quick to jump on the VP8 bandwagon, integrating the video codec the day following it was made open source. With the aim of offering the best in playing every file formats, it was essential for Moovida to integrate the latest in video compression technology produced by On2, the leader in its sector recently acquired by Google.

The VP8 video format, open sourced at Google’s I/O developer’s conference, is said to have ‘outstanding quality at low bitrates with very low complexity’. It follows the latest standards in compression technology, providing greater computational efficiency as well as a marked visual difference for the same datarate.

Pascal Pegaz Paquet, founder of Fluendo Embedded said, “Moovida’s aim to become the best media player on the market starts by offering the highest possible standards in video compression. That’s why it was so important for Moovida to be one of the first players to integrate the VP8 video codec and establish ourselves as a leader in the market.”

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