Introducing the Web Media Extension Package with OGG Vorbis and Theora support for Microsoft Edge 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 web. To address this, ,we recently added support for the WebM container format and the VP9 and Opus codecs on supported hardware. Today, we’re excited to announce a new mechanism which will allow our customers to add more formats on demand and increase our agility to add new formats in the future: Media Extensions. Alongside this mechanism, we’re releasing the Web Media Extensions package to the Microsoft Store as a free Media Extension for Microsoft Edge. Media Extensions Media on the web has been evolving at a furious rate for the last few years. Adaptive video streaming is now common, providing [ more… ]