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Webm/VP8 on the loose

Published May 20, 2010 by Colin Devroe in Research

Hello– Viddler’s Defender of Castles/TheTodd/@xtat here.

VP8 has come to public release and browsers are lining up support. The codec is not perfect, but there is significant value in a truly free codec for the world’s video, and this is an exciting time.

I took some time yesterday to build an encoder for this format and if there is significant interest, we will include encoding to Webm/VP8 with Viddler’s HTML5 support.

A sample video encoded with VP8/Vorbis(Webm) is attached to the bottom of this post, though it will only be viewable if you have a browser recently patched for vp8 support such as a nightly chrome build.

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  1. Hughman says

    May 21, 2010 - 5:08 pm

    I was thinking of building an encoder in a bit of my spare time….

    but when I realized that Todd had already beat me to it, …so I figured…..

    What the heck…I'll just use Todds.

    Sure are glad you are part of the V team.

    Hugh


  2. bod says

    May 24, 2010 - 11:36 am

    The audio sounds pretty terrible. This is almost certainly because you're using the vorbis codec built into FFMPEG, rather than the libvorbis one made by Xiph, the original creators of Vorbis.

    Video looks good though, and good to see the enthusiasm for open video.


  3. Todd Troxell says

    May 24, 2010 - 1:04 pm

    Very interesting, bod- thanks for mentioning this. I will build the next iteration with libvorbis support. I was pretty surprised how good the video looked with basically default vp8 settings.


  4. Todd Troxell says

    May 24, 2010 - 1:06 pm

    @Hughman : ) It is good to be appreciated!


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