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New VP8 Codec SDK Release Improves Performance

Posted by Soulskill on from the frame-job dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google released a new version of the VP8 codec SDK on Thursday. They note a number of performance improvements over the launch release including 20-40% (average 28%) improvement in libvpx decoder speed, an over 7% overall PSNR improvement (6.3% SSIM) in VP8 'best' quality encoding mode, and up to 60% improvement on very noisy, still or slow moving source video. In other WebM news, Texas Instruments has a demo of 1080p WebM video playing on their new TI OMAP 4 processor, in both Android and Ubuntu."

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  1. Who cares? by gabriel · · Score: 0, Troll

    From the complete lack of comments am I right to think that - after H.264 became eternally free for streaming - no one cares about VP8 anymore?