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How does it compare to WebP?

• astrange 9y ago
  It's at least a generation improvement. WebP is not very good; skal standardized it way early, before Google let anyone else review VP8.
  • ComputerGuru 9y ago
    They should have held off until VP9. Everything about VP8 (and, by extension, webp) was such a bungled mess. You come out with a format that barely competes with something released 5 years earlier then release an image format based on it while its superior replacement is being developed and close to release? AVC was released 10 years prior to HEVC; it had a good run and that encouraged adoption. Google barely got people to support their inferior (though mostly free) replacement before they obviated it not five years later, thus guaranteeing no one would ever bother with hardware encoding for an ever changing always outdated on arrival family of codecs. A real shame.