Re: [rtcweb] Congratuiations on the Cisco announcement - but we still prefer VP8

[Basil Mohamed Gohar <[e-mail]>]

On 11/04/2013 12:47 PM, Mo Zanaty (mzanaty) wrote:
> 
> To be fair, H.264 interop has not been a painless endeavor over the
> years, in part due to multiple profiles. Implementers have worked
> through many issues to achieve the nearly universal interop enjoyed
> today across hundreds or thousands of vendors and implementations. VP8
> should have an easier time, since it doesn’t have multiple profiles,
> packetization modes, etc. But VP8 will go through some of the same pains
> when many implementations flourish (software and hardware). The pain is
> not felt yet since there are only two vendors (Google and Mozilla) in
> close contact using a shared software implementation.
> 
> Mo

To be even more fair, in fact, there are more than just Google and
Mozilla on the VP8 playing field.  The ffmpeg/libav community(-ies?)
have made a successful implementation of a vp8 decoder (ffvp8) that is
also widely deployed and, to the best of my knowledge, has no known
major problems.

There was also the xvp8 project which, while I believe stalled, was not
due to incompatibilities or challenges, just lack of energy for that
project and motivation.

And there have been many hardware VP8 implementations in silicon across
multiple vendors no less, both for encoding and decoding.

And yes, while H.264 no doubt has a larger market segment, to say Google
and Mozilla are the only two players would not be accurate, and the
design and spec have shown they can be implemented widely and without as
much pain as the, arguably much more complex, (full) H.264 spec.

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