| >VP8 (which is also slightly better than h.264 at this point) I'm sorry, but you have been mislead - VP8 is not better than H.264, and comparison you linked is bad for multiple reasons, like not telling the exact encoder settings used, not providing actual video for users to compare and only showing one frame (for all we know, it might be a keyframe on VP8 and it pumped the bitrate up for it and x264 didn't), not providing source for test replication and so on - just read these: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/458 http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/472 I can do a proper comparison between H.264 and VP8 if you or anyone else is interested, though it'll take at least a few hours (I intend to use the park_joy test clip found in derf's test clip collection[1]). Also, On2 is famous for hyping up their products to heaven and have yet to match their claims, so I remain skeptical about VP9. There's also Xiph working on Daala, but right now it doesn't seem to be much beyond big words. While I would love an open format to provide better quality than H.264 and even H.265, I wouldn't hold my breath for such a thing. [1] http://media.xiph.org/video/derf/ |