Broadcom accelerates WebM video on mobile phones

IRVINE, USA: Broadcom Corp. announced that its VideoCore mobile multimedia processor family now supports the recently open-sourced WebM video format.

VideoCore's unique programmable hardware accelerator architecture enables high quality, low power playback of WebM video content at full resolution, supporting even the most advanced smart-feature and smartphone displays. With hardware accelerated mobile WebM support, consumers will be able to playback a broader spectrum of Internet video content on handsets at higher quality and lower power.

Mark Casey, VP & GM, Broadcom's Mobile Multimedia line of business, said: "A high quality mobile multimedia experience will be an important component to the overall success of the WebM video format and we expect widespread adoption. We developed VideoCore specifically for enabling the rapid adoption of power and performance optimized multimedia codecs into mobile devices, which allows us to rapidly enable optimized WebM support to mobile consumers."