2016 UPDATE: Sorry, the download and image links are down. If I ever get around to making a new test upload or something, I'll probably redo them.
It's important to note however that the higher-quality fmt22 AVC encodes no longer exist - they're now identical to the non-HFR 720p DASH AVC encode (except in a non-DASH container).
Here's a list of my quality tests from newest to oldest:
[2015-12-20] Lossless 1080p, 30fps
[2015-12-20] Lossless 1080p, 2x speed @ 60fps
[2015-11-06] Lossless 1080p, 30fps
[2015-11-06] Lossless 1080p, 2x speed @ 60fps
[2015-07-05] Lossless 1080p, 30fps
[2015-05-01] 6Mbps AVC 720p, 30fps
[2014-05-12] 6Mbps AVC 720p, 30fps
[2013-11-12] 3/6Mbps AVC 720p, Half speed @ 15fps
2015 Update
I've been doing quite a bit of testing and felt that I should probably link the stuff earlier in the thread.
Videos in question
Source & YouTube download mirror:
https://www.mediafire.com/#ssmidj916dmw3
2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLxHjixnf3c
2015:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFy6yKkV-Jg
[Source] MP4 AVC (6169kbps):
Screenshot A ~
Screenshot B ~
Screenshot C
2014
DASH AVC (2112kbps):
Screenshot A ~
Screenshot B ~
Screenshot C
fmt22 AVC (2886kbps):
Screenshot A ~
Screenshot B ~
Screenshot C
WebM VP9 (2182kbps):
Screenshot A ~
Screenshot B ~
Screenshot C
2015
DASH AVC (2125kbps):
Screenshot A ~
Screenshot B ~
Screenshot C
fmt22 AVC (2894kbps):
Screenshot A ~
Screenshot B ~
Screenshot C
WebM VP9 (
1686kbps):
Screenshot A ~
Screenshot B ~
Screenshot C
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ORIGINAL POST --------------------------------
Here's a great example of VP9 on YouTube making the video no longer look like crap ~
UPDATE: I mean for 720p, my internet is too slow to stream 1080p:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq3QwK3-mdc&t=13m20s
To test h.264 just open the same link in a browser that doesn't yet support VP9.
For your convenience, here are links to Chrome Portable (supports VP9) Firefox ESR portable (doesn't support VP9):
Chrome:
http://portableapps.com/apps/interne...hrome_portable
Firefox ESR:
http://portableapps.com/apps/interne...x-portable-esr
EDIT: Due to its alpha state, BeamNG DRIVE is known to have frame rate hiccups. If you want to test the smoothness and motion performance of VP9 I recommend the following video instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNhnkFEgXw0&t=6m30s
While it has an extremely stable frame rate it's nowhere as visually detailed as the BeamNG video.
UPDATE: It does however work great for testing audio/video de-syncing since you can see if the engine revs and gear shifting matches up with the on-screen display in the bottom-right.
EDIT 2: You can download the VP9 WebM files (along with the h.264 formats) from YouTube with one of the following Firefox extensions:
http://www.cys-audiovideodownloader.com/
https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/fir...and-audio-dow/