Doom9's Forum - View Single Post - World’s fastest VP8 decoder (ffvp8) almost ready

Brookstone · 27th July 2010, 15:01

This isn't the least bit surprising since the VP8 decoding algorithm is supposed to be quite similar to the h.264 decoding algorithm and the FFMPEG implementation of h.264 decoding (x264) is recognized as one of the fastest implementations of the standard. Hopefully news like this continues to achieve better adoption of open source software as well as open standards.

Anyway, I want to give a big "thank you" to all of the developers that contributed to this accomplishment and any companies that supported this (especially Google)! I know there's still more work to be done, but this is a great start to a project that will make video decoding more accessible to many users.

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Brookstone Registered User Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Murray, USA Posts: 2	This isn't the least bit surprising since the VP8 decoding algorithm is supposed to be quite similar to the h.264 decoding algorithm and the FFMPEG implementation of h.264 decoding (x264) is recognized as one of the fastest implementations of the standard. Hopefully news like this continues to achieve better adoption of open source software as well as open standards. Anyway, I want to give a big "thank you" to all of the developers that contributed to this accomplishment and any companies that supported this (especially Google)! I know there's still more work to be done, but this is a great start to a project that will make video decoding more accessible to many users.