r/VP9

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VP9

r/VP9

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Created Jan 10, 2014 · restricted

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VP9 is a successor to VP8, a video compression algorithm developed by Google for use in Youtube and other video streaming platforms.

Advantages: Better than h.264 in both bitrate and quality, widely supported by all browsers, less demanding to play than HEVC.

Disadvantages: Slow to encode, higher bitrate than HEVC.

Related subreddits:

AV1 - For upcoming VP9 encoder successor.

Webm - For sharing and creating content in .webm container.

HEVC - MPEG group video codec.

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