FFmpeg’s VP8 Decoder Blasts Google’s Decoder

“It was just back in May that Google opened up the VP8 video
format that they got their hands on through the acquisition of On2
and at the same time they created the WebM container format. VP8
has already received a lot of love by the open-source community —
both developers and end-users — and support for it has already
worked its way into FFmpeg, GStreamer, and other multimedia
projects. Google released the libvpx library as their official VP8
decoder library, but now the FFmpeg developers have created their
own decoder and it’s shockingly faster than that of Google’s own
open-source library.”

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