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Read more.YouTube with partners LG, Panasonic and Sony, will demo 4K streaming at the CES.
Awesome, another codec with improvements, I wasn't expecting as much of a difference considering the advances MPEG4 brought over MPEG2......but I guess most of these codecs are limited by the SOC hardware that will be decoding them....
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This is a good move as it will help those who have data caps on there interweb provider get more from there tarrif.
I'm really unhappy with Google (though it's probably the acquired On2 staff, who were notorious for this sort of thing) for their dodgy comparison. PSNR measures... PSNR. Like SSIM, it's not really a wonderful measure of visual encoding quality. Comparing x.264 (tuned for Psy optimisation) to VP9 (tuned for optimum PSNR) is really cheeky.
It would have been nice to see more direct comparisons with h.265 and VP9.
Exactly what I was thinking.Originally Posted by Kushan
Yeah...
At half the bitrate and being royalty free, there will be no question of a war. It's more of a coup d'état.
Not really, it's not so much competing with h.264 (the codec it does half the bit rate of), but rather h.265, which has similar characteristics. VP8 went up against h.264, again as royalty-free, yet it didn't gain a huge amount of traction, either.
VP9 does seem like it's getting much more support, though.
http://iphome.hhi.de/marpe/download/Performance_HEVC_VP9_X264_PCS_2013_preprint.pdf
If this is anything to go by then VP9 at the moment is inferior to H.265.
Anyone know if I download a video using this codec? I wanna try it out.
H.265 is what sky has been using for its internal 4k tests. It's amazing that better quality is available with even less bandwidth. This will help 4k take up and could even mean we still use blu rays for 4k content.
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