The VP8 video codec - overview and comparison to H.264/AVC
Christian Feller, Juergen Wuenschmann, Thorsten Roll, Albrecht Rothermel · 2011
VP8 is announced by Google as a royalty-free alternative to the H.264/AVC video codec, promising comparable picture quality, data rate and encoding speed. This paper compares the two codecs analysing the published statements and comparing them with results of our own experiments.