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Please note that this is only an encoder, not a decoder, and therefore not what most seem to expect from the announcement.
by mgw 16y ago
Please note that this is only an encoder, not a decoder, and therefore not what most seem to expect from the announcement.
- joe_the_user 16y agoHow do you get that? "Google yesterday released a version of its VP8 video encoder and decoder designed to be baked into hardware."
- pjscott 16y agoThey released a hardware decoder a while back. It's been licensed by some chip makers, though I haven't heard which ones. http://www.webmproject.org/hardware/ http://www.webmproject.org/hardware/
- jlouis 16y ago"only" an encoder? It is quite big to have hardware encoding because that is where the bottleneck for real-time encoding is. Hence, if you were to choose between the encoder or decoder path, you would definitely focus on the encoder path first. But it does look like VP8 has both paths now, which is kind-of nice. If Google plays this well, they give people all the reason for including a VP8 hardware decoder in new devices. I don't really buy the space-is-important argument as Moore's law still holds true for transistor counts.