[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] web/index: add native HEVC and VP9 decoder news

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Timothy Gu <timothygu99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Oct 27, 2013 7:20 PM, "Michael Niedermayer" <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 05:23:47PM -0700, Timothy Gu wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at
> >
> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 04:03:33PM -0800, Lou Logan wrote:
> > > >> Text by Timothy Gu with very minor changes by me.
> > > >> ---
> > > >>  src/index | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > Shouldn't you add a
> > > From: Timothy Gu <...>
> > > ?
> > >
> >
> > > >
> > > > not sure about the "doubles" talk but
> > >
> > > At least that's what MPEG and Google say.
>
> ...and it's what Ronald say ;)
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57584706-93/google-urges-fast-adoption-of-vp9-video-compression/
>
> >
> > with old encoder & old standard vs. new encoder and new standard
> > double is plausible
>
> To be honest, I don't even think that comparing reference encoders would
> give as good a result as 2x the compression rate.


The 2x is correct, and Michael's interpretation is indeed the correct one.
This is exhaustive vp9/hevc (which is all that existed back then) versus
the best market encoders that existed for the old standards. (You'll notice
they don't talk about cpu cycles.)

Ronald