VP8 is an open and royalty-free video compression format released by On2 Technologies in 2008.
Key facts
- File format.logo
- 200px|VP8 logo
- File format.owner
- On2 Technologies, Google
- File format.released
- September 13, 2008
- File format.type
- Video coding format
- File format.contained by
- WebM, Matroska
- File format.extended from
- VP7
- File format.extended to
- VP9
- File format.open
- Yes (specification under CC-by)
- File format.free
- See
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
16 sectionsContents
- Features
- Technology
- History
- Implementations
- libvpx
- Encoding
- Decoding
- Operating system support
- Related formats
- WebM
- WebP
- Comparison with H.264
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
VP8 is an open and royalty-free video compression format released by On2 Technologies in 2008.
Initially released as a proprietary successor to On2's previous VP7 format, VP8 was released as an open and royalty-free format in May 2010 after Google acquired On2 Technologies. Google provided an irrevocable patent promise on its patents for implementing the VP8 format, and released a specification of the format under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. That same year, Google also released libvpx, the reference implementation of VP8, under the revised BSD license.