Google Gets Ready With VP9 Codec

[toyotabedzrock]

i have the suspicion that the main problem with the adoption of vp8 is HW acceleration. And this shouldn't be the case with vp9 if google wants it to succeed.

They have HW already for vp8. I think nvidia already built it into their mobile chips. And I'm pretty sure other chipmakers are about to ass well.

[birdie]

It's too damn early to freeze it.

VP9 must be made better than H.265, otherwise the point of its existence is so moot Google had better not release it at all.

[Fenrin]

Expect VP9 patent lawsuits by trolls who;
A) want free money for doing absolutely nothing
B) stall the project and attempt to kill it by creating FUD

there will be probably not any patent lawsuit from MPEG LA: xiphmont.livejournal.com/59893.html

Nokia could make trouble with this patent though: http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publi...1B1&KC=B1&ND=4

Damn even in Europe we have stupid software patents

[RahulSundaram]

exactly.
So, they said YouTube is going to use VP9. Um.... how exactly? YouTube supports WebM, which is VP8 and Vorbis. Unless they extend WebM to allow multiple codecs, or release WebM2.....

WebM is a container flexible enough and was designed to support multiple codecs since Google has been planning to update VP8 all along. This will happen as VP9 gets finalized. No need for WebM2.

[SyXbiT]

Now will they finally put their foot down and kill off Flash and their Pepper API? Beat H.265 to market and force all Android phone makers to support it.

exactly.
So, they said YouTube is going to use VP9. Um.... how exactly? YouTube supports WebM, which is VP8 and Vorbis. Unless they extend WebM to allow multiple codecs, or release WebM2.....

[uid313]

Lawsuits

Expect VP9 patent lawsuits by trolls who;
A) want free money for doing absolutely nothing
B) stall the project and attempt to kill it by creating FUD

[89c51]

Now will they finally put their foot down and kill off Flash and their Pepper API? Beat H.265 to market and force all Android phone makers to support it.

i have the suspicion that the main problem with the adoption of vp8 is HW acceleration. And this shouldn't be the case with vp9 if google wants it to succeed.

[Kivada]

Phoronix: Google Gets Ready With VP9 Codec

Google is almost finalized with the VP9 codec, the successor to the increasingly-used VP8 codec...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTM3MDA

Now will they finally put their foot down and kill off Flash and their Pepper API? Beat H.265 to market and force all Android phone makers to support it.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Gets Ready With VP9 Codec

Google is almost finalized with the VP9 codec, the successor to the increasingly-used VP8 codec...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTM3MDA