[ksec]

I think HEVC, or H.265 is moving to much better terms in licensing. Instead of requiring license fees for Software decoder, They are collecting a small fees for Hardware decoder / encoder. Since every Mobile devices will be getting it and devices are going to ship units in billions in the life time of the codec. It is going to get back all the investment. Meanwhile a free ( in price ) software decoder can be included in Browsers / Software.

Correct me if I am wrong on the licensing issue. And BTW VP9 / 10 isn't patents free, Google is just paying for it and you get to use it for free.

And aside of patents issues, VP10 doesn't stand against HEVC in quality. VP9 quality never got close to H.264 AVC best encoder. And even VP10 will come close or exceed it, HEVC is here already. VPx ( The one after VP10, For some reason they dont call it VP11 ) will hopefully rival HEVC.

[nitrogen]

What metric is being used to compare VPxyz with H264 and HEVC? PSNR? SSIM? Double-blind tests? Encode/decode performance? Hardware complexity? Patent encumbrance?

[xooyoozoo]

There's a recent paper comparing subjective performance between HEVC and VP9.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/238049197/HEVC-H-265-VP9-AVC-subje...