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FFmpeg's VP9 Decoder Faster Than Google's

Posted by timothy on from the healthy-competition dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A VP9 video decoder written for FFmpeg, FFvp9, now holds the title of being the world's fastest VP9 video decoder. FFvp9 is faster than Google's de facto VP9 decoder found in libvpx, but this doesn't come as too much of a surprise given that FFmpeg also produced a faster VP8 video decoder than Google a few years back with both single and multi-threaded performance."

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  1. Faster is not necessarily better: Quality matters. by MROD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So, is the quality of the output equivalent or has it suffered due to compromises due to the speed increase?

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  2. Re: Faster is not necessarily better: Quality matt by Bengie · · Score: 3, Interesting

    100 years ago, nothing supports H.264 in hardware either, yet here it is. I know, lets waste money making hardware for codecs that are not standards yet!