Performance Analysis of Open Web Video Codec VP8

  • Park, Younghyeon (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Lee, Hoyoung (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Jeon, Byeungwoo (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
  • Received : 2012.12.13
  • Accepted : 2013.04.10
  • Published : 2013.04.30

Abstract

VP8, an open web media video format, has recently attractedmuch attention, particularly from major web browser companies, as a video codec for HTML5 on internet due to its good coding efficiency and royalty-free policy. Compared to other video compression schemes such as H.264/AVC, it has several distinctive coding tools that help to ensure good coding efficiency and low decoding complexity. In this paper, we investigate its coding techniques and analyze its rate-distortion (R-D) coding performance as compared to that of H.264/AVC.

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