[StavrosK]

> a pithy, if slightly inaccurate, description of VP8 would be “H.264 Baseline Profile with a better entropy coder..."

and

> Overall, VP8 appears to be significantly weaker than H.264 compression-wise.

don't seem to go very well together, to me. How can VP8 be a better H.264 and worse than H.264 at the same time?

[ANTSANTS]

H.264 Baseline Profile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Profiles

[jfb]

H.264 defines a number of profiles and levels that define the acceptable tools from the overall suite that a conforming decoder implementation can rely on. "Baseline" uses very few of these tools, relative to the more sophisticated profiles.

[StavrosK]

Oh, I didn't know about that, thanks!