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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:Money by pseudofrog · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're able to deliver a better product to their users at a lower cost.

    Wow what a bunch of monsters.

  2. Re:Horrible artifacts by ldobehardcore · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That doesn't prove anything. It could have had all those ringing and mosquito noise artifacts when it was uploaded, and the vp9 could be completely transparent. Since we can't see the original file uploaded there's no telling how good or bad VP9 actually is. For all we know, that file could've been encoded in MJPEG then uploaded. Those ringing artifacts are pretty common with JPEG DCT type compression.

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