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by afhof 4889 days ago
One of the interesting things about VP8 is that its very similar to h.264. Saying that one device has hardware support for h.264 really means that it has support for some of the operations that h.264 uses; likely that same ones that VP8 uses. In fact, I am willing to bet that is why Android devices 2.3.3 and up require VP8 support; it was easy to add it in.

The ffmpeg guys wrote a VP8 decoder with 1400 lines of C because of how much they were able to reuse. From: http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2010/06/27/googles-vp8-video-...