Critical Analysis of VP8

There hasn’t been too much press lately regarding VP8, but that definitely doesn’t mean it’s gone. H.264 experts have done a pretty deep and critical analysis of the codec and have positive things to say. Cliff notes: Pretty dang good for being so young and without extensive optimizations.

These results can improve very quickly with optimizations, and the Russian lab hasn't yet tested implementations of VP8 other than the one provided by Google developers. Ronald Bultje, David Conrad, and Jason Garret-Glaser, x264 developers, are now creating a native VP8 video codec implementation for the open source FFmpeg project.

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