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H.264 and VP8 Compared

Posted by timothy on from the one-has-4-chars-and-a-dot dept.

TheReal_sabret00the writes with a snippet from StreamingMedia.com: "VP8 is now free, but if the quality is substandard, who cares? Well, it turns out that the quality isn't substandard, so that's not an issue, but neither is it twice the quality of H.264 at half the bandwidth. See for yourself."

2 of 337 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Bunk test by Phroggy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Once again someone is comparing a codec to H264 using some small as hell resolution.
    Welcome to 2010, if it's not encoded at 1080p nobody cares.

    On a cell phone, that's not true.

    --
    $x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
    $x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
  2. Re:For the patent FUDsters sure to follow.... by Dahamma · · Score: 5, Informative

    In most of the civilized world there's no such thing as software patents

    Yeah, most of the civilized world except the US, EU, UK, Japan, South Korea, and others...

    And there is no point in pretending software is not patentable in the EU - precedent has LONG been established that software solving a "technical" problem as opposed to a "business process" is patentable. Video and audio codecs are already among those issued. (a big part of that is that codecs are not necessarily "software" patents, in that they are fairly straightforward algorithms that can be implemented in "hardware"/firmware/etc as well as software).

    Feel free to count the number of countries in this list, but I think it's over 25... http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avc-att1.pdf