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FFmpeg gets its own implementation of Google's VP8 codec (ars technica)
Ars technica looks
at an effort to create a native VP8 video codec implementation for the
FFmpeg project. "Building on top of FFmpeg will allow them to take
advantage of a substantial body of existing code. FFmpeg already supports
previous iterations of the codec, such as VP5 and VP6, which share some
common characteristics with VP8. According to [Ronald] Bultje, some of the
optimizations developed for FFmpeg's H.264 and VP5/6 code can be shared
seamlessly with the new VP8 implementation. This approach will lead to a
smaller footprint than if the developers were to simply graft Google's code
into FFmpeg."
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FFmpeg gets its own implementation of Google's VP8 codec (ars technica) Posted Jun 29, 2010 20:51 UTC (Tue) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
Note that this is only the decoder, not the encoder. As far as I know, nobody has yet started any independent VP8 encoder project.
FFmpeg gets its own implementation of Google's VP8 codec (ars technica) Posted Jun 30, 2010 8:18 UTC (Wed) by Hanno (guest, #41730) [Link] That Ars Technica report is just a rephrased version of the original blog entry, with no additional information.
FFmpeg gets its own implementation of Google's VP8 codec (ars technica) Posted Jul 3, 2010 19:58 UTC (Sat) by bgmarete (subscriber, #47484) [Link]
This is great. Many people in the free software (and elsewhere) world just do not realize the depth of gratitude they owe to the FFmpeg project. This is especially with regard to media decoders.
Whatever player you use, when you decode virtually anything, from standard MPEG (incuding H.264) compressed formats to obscure video game codecs, there is every likelihood that you will be using FFmpeg code. Its simply an amazing project.
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