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Google Rolls Out VP9 Encoding For YouTube

Posted by Soulskill on from the prettier-pictures-per-megabit dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The YouTube engineering blog announced that they've begun encoding videos with Google's open VP9 codec. Their goal is to use the efficiency of VP9 to bring better quality video to people in low-bandwidth areas, and to spur uptake of 4K video in more developed areas. "[I]f your Internet connection used to only play up to 480p without buffering on YouTube, it can now play silky smooth 720p with VP9."

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  1. Re:Proprietary formats suck. by Jbcarpen · · Score: 5, Informative

    Er... VP9 is BSD license. I'd hardly call that proprietary. Sure, they may be the only ones using it yet. But I don't see that staying the case for long if it's actually a better format.

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  2. Re:Proprietary formats suck. by short · · Score: 5, Informative

    4 years old i7-2620M: VP9 1080p takes at most 40% core (=20% CPU), 2160p takes at most 150% core (=75% CPU).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... formats 248 and 313 respectively.