Open and royalty-free video coding format released by Google in 2010
For other uses, see VP8 (disambiguation).
VP8
Internet media type
video/VP8
Developed by
On2 Technologies, Google
Initial release
September 13, 2008
Type of format
Video coding format
Contained by
WebM, Matroska
Extended from
VP7
Extended to
VP9
Standard
RFC 6386
Open format?
Yes (specification under CC-by)[1]
Free format?
See § History
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.[1] That same year, Google also released libvpx, the reference implementation of VP8, under the revised BSD license.[2]
Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Pale Moon, and Chromium support playing VP8 video in HTML5 video tag.[3] Internet Explorer officially supports VP8 if the user has the DirectShow filter installed.[clarification needed][4][5]
According to Google, VP8 is mainly used in connection with WebRTC and as a format for short looped animations, as a replacement for the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF).[6]
VP8 can be multiplexed into the Matroska-based container format WebM along with Vorbis and Opus audio. The image format WebP is based on VP8's intra-frame coding. VP8's direct successor, VP9, and the royalty-free AV1 codec from the Alliance for Open Media are based on VP8.[7]
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Media (AOMedia). It serves as the reference software implementation for the VP8 and VP9 video coding formats, and for AV1 a special fork named libaom that...
libvpx decoder. Starting with version 0.6, FFmpeg also supported WebM and VP8. In October 2013, a native VP9 decoder and OpenHEVC, an open source High...
patents that are essential to the VP8 video codec”. In April 2013, Google and MPEG LA announced an agreement covering the VP8 video format. In May 2010, Nero...
the following codecs are supported: MPEG-2 VC-1 H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC) VP8 VP9 AV1 NVCUVID was originally distributed as part of the Nvidia CUDA Toolkit...
1, G.711, Speex, iLBC, GSM, AMR, AMR-WB, and video codecs H.264, H.263+, VP8. STUN and ICE NAT traversal SIP SIMPLE presence and messaging There are two...
and can also manage video RTP payload formats such as H.264, H.265, MPEG, VP8, and DV, and audio RTP payload formats such as MPEG, AAC, AMR, AC-3 and Vorbis...
would be based on a profile of the Matroska container format together with VP8 video and Vorbis audio. On 31 October 2014, Microsoft confirmed that Windows...
specifies the container format (Matroska), but also exactly which video (VP8) and audio (Vorbis) compression format is inside the Matroska container,...
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