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The free software FFmpeg project's libraries have very wide support for encoding and decoding video file formats. For example, Google uses ffmpeg to support a wide range of upload video formats for YouTube. [1] One widely used media player using the ffmpeg libraries is the free software VLC media player, which can play most video files that end ...
VideoLAN dav1d – An AV1 decoder for decoding videos with AV1 codec; Xiph.Org rav1e – An AV1 encoder written in Rust; Google libgav1 – An AV1 decoder by Google; xvc – An open source video codec, aiming to compete with h.265 and AV1. The reference implementation is released under the LGPL 2.1 and currently available in version 2.0 (as of ...
WebM is an audiovisual media file format. [5] It is primarily intended to offer a royalty-free alternative to use in the HTML video and the HTML audio elements. It has a sister project, WebP, for images.
libvpx was released as free software by Google on May 19, 2010, after the acquisition of On2 Technologies for an estimate of over 120 million US dollars. [2] [4] In June 2010, Google amended the VP8 codec software license to the 3-clause BSD license [5] [6] [7] after some contention over whether the original license was actually open source. [8 ...
VP9 is the last official iteration of the TrueMotion series of video formats that Google bought in 2010 for $134 million together with the company On2 Technologies that created it. The development of VP9 started in the second half of 2011 under the development names of Next Gen Open Video ( NGOV ) and VP-Next .
The quality the codec can achieve is heavily based on the compression format the codec uses. A codec is not a format, and there may be multiple codecs that implement the same compression specification – for example, MPEG-1 codecs typically do not achieve quality/size ratio comparable to codecs that implement the more modern H.264 specification.
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VP8 is a traditional block-based transform coding format. It has much in common with H.264, e.g. some prediction modes. [8] At the time of first presentation of VP8, according to On2 the in-loop filter [9] and the Golden Frames [10] were among the novelties of this iteration.