FFmpeg Announces High-Performance VP8 Decoder

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 24, 2010 @01:16AM from the harder-better-faster-stronger dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Three FFmpeg developers — Ronald Bultje, David Conrad, and x264 developer Jason Garrett-Glaser — have written the first independent, free implementation of a VP8 video decoder. Benchmarks show that it's as much as 65% faster than Google's official libvpx. The announcement also gives a taste of what went into the development process, as well as the optimization techniques used. Currently it's only fully optimized on x86, but ARM and PowerPC optimizations are next in line for development."

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Re:any dvd professional by shaitand · 2010-07-24 02:54 · Score: 3, Insightful

Agreed. The fact that VP8 generally does hold its own side by side with x264 is a pretty impressive testament to the codec.
But who cares if VP8 is technically a better codec if it doesn't actually produce superior results with the source video we work with? If it cuts CPU for decoding while offering on par quality that would be a solid advantage.