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* Company: [[On2]]
* Company: [[On2]], [[Google]]
* High-level technical description: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377
* Data Format and Decoding Specification: RFC 6386


On May 19, 2010, Google announced that the VP8 source code was open source as part of the [[WebM]] project.
On May 19, 2010, Google announced that the VP8 source code was open source as part of the [[WebM]] project.
VP8 has features in common with [[H.264]]. For example, see [[H.264 Prediction]] to understand where VP8's prediction modes mimic and differ from H.264's modes.


[[Category:Video Codecs]]
[[Category:Video Codecs]]

Latest revision as of 20:39, 1 January 2013

  • Company: On2, Google
  • Data Format and Decoding Specification: RFC 6386

On May 19, 2010, Google announced that the VP8 source code was open source as part of the WebM project.

VP8 has features in common with H.264. For example, see H.264 Prediction to understand where VP8's prediction modes mimic and differ from H.264's modes.