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Firefox Gains Support for VP9 Video Codec

Posted by Unknown on from the death-to-mpeg dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With the latest Firefox nightly builds the VP9 video codec is enabled by default. VP9 is a step ahead of the open-source VP8 codec but up to now has only been supported by the Chrome browser. VP9 support will officially appear in Firefox 28."

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  1. VP9 vs x264 by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Disclaimer: I am not the author of the following pdf

    http://iphome.hhi.de/marpe/download/Performance_HEVC_VP9_X264_PCS_2013_preprint.pdf

    According to the above pdf

    "x264 encoder achieves an average gain of 6.2% in terms of BD-BR savings compared to VP9

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    Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
  2. Re:YouTube by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    nope, vp9 is based mostly on h264 minus certain areas that fall upon patents which makes it almost as good but worse. In exchange, you don't get into the royalty minefield that was in question for a while back.

    vp9 was great to force mpeg-la hand into making h264 royalty free indefinitely (at least for streaming) but it really serves little purpose now since that hand also served to stifle vp9 growth which is basically based off the premise of a royalty free h264 codec.