Skal's new encoder on its slower modes does seem to do a good bit better. Its approach is quite slow compared to the regular VP8 encoder (which was already slo

Skal's new encoder on its slower modes does seem to do a good bit better. Its approach is quite slow compared to the regular VP8 encoder (which was already slow), though. The code is actually rather interesting to read -- it basically uses K-means for a large portion of the encoding process, which is applicable in this case because of VP8's non-adaptive arithmetic coder. I've never seen an encoder done quite this way before.