• DocumentCode
    3475134
  • Title

    The VP8 video codec - overview and comparison to H.264/AVC

  • Author

    Feller, Christian ; Wuenschmann, J. ; Roll, T. ; Rothermel, Albrecht

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Microelectron., Ulm Univ., Ulm, Germany
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    6-8 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    57
  • Lastpage
    61
  • Abstract
    VP8 is announced by Google as a royalty-free alternative to the H.264/AVC video codec, promising comparable picture quality, data rate and encoding speed. This paper compares the two codecs analysing the published statements and comparing them with results of our own experiments.
  • Keywords
    encoding; video codecs; video coding; Google; H.264/AVC video codec; VP8 video codec; data rate; encoding speed; picture quality; royalty-free alternative; Decoding; Encoding; High definition video; PSNR; Video codecs; Video sequences;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Berlin
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0233-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2011.6031852
  • Filename
    6031852