A technical analysis of VP8

Jason Garrett-Glaser has posted what he claims is The first in-depth technical analysis of the VP8 codec. The "in-depth" part is certainly right. "Overall, VP8 appears to be significantly weaker than H.264 compression-wise. The primary weaknesses mentioned above are the lack of proper adaptive quantization, lack of B-frames, lack of an 8x8 transform, and non-adaptive loop filter. With this in mind, I expect VP8 to be more comparable to VC-1 or H.264 Baseline Profile than with H.264. Of course, this is still significantly better than Theora, and in my tests it beats Dirac quite handily as well." (Thanks to Martin Jeppesen).

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