This is not true. My work, written three years ago, showed that VP8 was inferior to H.264[1] at the time. A more recent paper showed that both VP8 and VP9 are i

This is not true. My work, written three years ago, showed that VP8 was inferior to H.264[1] at the time. A more recent paper showed that both VP8 and VP9 are inferior to both H.264 and HEVC[2]. [1]: http://blog.seancassidy.me/h264-and-vp8-compared.html http://blog.seancassidy.me/h264-and-vp8-compared.html [2]: http://iphome.hhi.de/marpe/download/Performance_HEVC_VP9_X264_PCS_2013_preprint.pdf http://iphome.hhi.de/marpe/download/Performance_HEVC_VP9_X26...