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VP8 Codec Coming To FFmpeg

Posted by kdawson on from the small-fast dept.

Jim Buzbee writes "Interested in Google's VP8 codec? Well, so were the FFmpeg guys, so they went ahead and wrote their own native decoder in only 1,400 lines of unique code. They were able to keep the line-count low by relying on heavy reuse from the existing H.264 codebase."

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  1. Re:Hmmm... by BZ · · Score: 5, Informative

    > Can the same be said of VP8?

    Not yet. Of course the format is less than 2 months old, and there _were_ several hardware companies who committed to implementing support for it at launch.

    Also, note that mobile phones don't support "hardware decoding of H.264". They support hardware-acceleration of operations needed to decode a particular profile of H.264: the Basic profile. The one that has lower quality output than VP8 does.

    So if you start bringing the hardware accel issue into the picture, then your quality metrics are suddenly in VP8's favor...

    All of which is to say that the situation is complicated. ;)