VP9

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VP9 is an open and royalty-free video compression codec developed by Google as a successor to VP8 and an alternative to HEVC/H.265 for high-efficiency video streaming.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf open format
royalty-free codec
video codec
video compression format
alternativeTo H.265 NERFINISHED
HEVC NERFINISHED
bitstream not backward compatible with VP8
comparedTo H.264/AVC NERFINISHED
compressionEfficiencyComparedToH264 higher at same visual quality
container .mkv
.webm
designGoal high-efficiency video compression
reduced bitrate at similar quality compared to H.264/AVC
developer Google
fileFormatSupport Matroska NERFINISHED
WebM NERFINISHED
introducedBy Google in 2013
license royalty-free
openSourceImplementation libvpx NERFINISHED
optimizedFor low-latency streaming
web delivery
partOf WebM project NERFINISHED
predecessor VP8
relatedStandard AV1 (successor codec from Alliance for Open Media) NERFINISHED
standardizedBy Alliance for Open Media (historical context / influence) NERFINISHED
successorTo VP8 NERFINISHED
supports 4:2:0 chroma subsampling
8-bit color depth
entropy coding with arithmetic coding-like techniques
inter-frame prediction
intra-frame prediction
loop filtering
lossy video compression
parallel decoding
reference frames
spatial scalability (SVC)
temporal scalability (SVC)
tile-based decoding
up to 4K resolution
variable block sizes
typicalUseCase high-resolution streaming (1080p, 4K)
usedBy Android NERFINISHED
Chrome NERFINISHED
Edge NERFINISHED
Firefox NERFINISHED
YouTube NERFINISHED
usedFor adaptive bitrate streaming
internet video streaming
video conferencing

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H.265 relatedStandard VP9
HK notableWork VP9
subject surface form: Heckler & Koch