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Would you mind going a little more in depth about VP8? Last I heard it was supposedly amazing but that was awhile ago.
by smith7018 13y ago
Would you mind going a little more in depth about VP8? Last I heard it was supposedly amazing but that was awhile ago.
- w0utert 13y agoWhat more is there to say about it? It's fundamentally almost exactly the same as H264, minus a few features that would make it too vulnerable to patent litigation, plus a few minor additions that are meant to patch up the efficiency lost by excluding some of H264's features. For web video VP8 performs about the same as H264, for high-bitrate/high quality (think Blu-Ray/Full HD) it performs decidedly worse because it doesn't have most (any?) of the advanced features in H264 main/extended/high profiles. The one big downside is lack of widespread hardware codec support. There really isn't anything 'amazing' about VP8, except that some people think it fixes something about video coding because it is 'more free' than H264, which IMO is vastly overstated. In real life, for 99.9% of people (including those offering commercial video products), the difference is practically philosophical.