Why aren't all new rips encoded in VP9? It's free as in FOSS and it's hardware accelerated on most devices.
It's a viable alternative to h265.
Why the fuck are rips always in x264 or x265? I've never seen a rip of a decent show or film in VP9 but there is no reason why people shouldn't use it.
Luke Phillips
x264 and x265 is free as in FOSS as well. Patent law means jack shit for end users.
Matthew White
Because they compress better and are more widely supported by sites and companies that create videos that people actually care about.
John Mitchell
VP9 is basically dead. It's okay to use in the meantime but AV1 a FOSS codec with actual industry backing is coming soon.
Bentley Myers
I use x265 for my personal use. I don't pay any because source is available freely.
Xavier Sanders
Lack of HW encoders.
Parker Butler
>It's free as in FOSS Just like x265 and x264 AV1 will be the future, does anyone know if it will support lossless compression however?
Leo Smith
Also, I once tried vpxenc before and it was really slow and buggy.
Ian Clark
Man i hope AV1 is gonna be good, both for low res and high res content.
but i bet were still gonna be stuck on 264 and 265 forever regardless..
Can dream of one format to rule them all, one which is free too.
IIRC it uses OPUS for sound
Benjamin Nguyen
>IIRC it uses OPUS for sound I thought that video codecs did not care which sound codec you used. Shouldn't you be able to easily use FLAC with it?
Joshua Roberts
Could be wrong, im just pretty sure i read that, since opus is free too, and is great.
Daniel Torres
AV1 can be used together with the audio format Opus in a future version of the WebM format for HTML5 web video and WebRTC
Eh, i remembered wrong, but there.
Christian Sullivan
(((They))) will find MPEG patents from AV1 unless it is completely different from traditional MC + DCT design.
Justin Gomez
Because VP9 takes significantly longer to encode and there aren't many HW decoders.
Also popular encoders like staxrip and megui don't support them.
Nathaniel Adams
Awful hardware support. I just build a Kodibox with an Odroid C2 and it cannot into VP9 like most others.
Kevin Morgan
Just use xVid for video + MP3 for audio
Juan Ortiz
Slow as hell with bad rate control.
Carson Walker
>Why aren't all new rips encoded in VP9 It's shit. >It's a viable alternative to h265. Wrong. >there is no reason why people shouldn't use it I guess you never tried encoding, did you.
Luis Ramirez
>Surely Google can write a good encoder for VP8 now, with all its money! -- me, in 2010 >Okay, VP8 doesn't matter anyway, surely Google can write a good encoder for VP9 now, with all its money! -- me, in 2013 >Well, they better spend the effort on AV1 now, VP9 is dead. Surely it won't end up as every On2 codec so far, this time! -- me, in 2019
Aaron Young
i remember being excited for VP7 i'm not going to get too hopeful about AV1
Elijah Wood
i hate 265 poluting my sources too. 264 is as universal as mp3, and i like it that way. ill only shift once av1 is ready
Jaxson Jackson
Inferior technology. Why do you care? It's not our problem when your trisqueer or gnonsense install can't play state of the art formats, you know.
Camden Russell
>i hate 265 poluting my sources too. 264 is as universal as mp3, and i like it that way. ill only shift once av1 is ready You're in for a long long wait.
Owen Jackson
Haha, right. Arguably the pre-acquisition On2 was even worse stuff (not that it meant libvpx is very good). Closed vfw encoder with slow speeds and no updates IIRC.
Meanwhile x264 came with frequent updates (and improvements) and rest is history.
Lucas Gomez
VP9 had awful hardware support. A Google codec and even my Chromebook Pixel LS would take off like a jet when playing a YouTube video over 720p.
Jaxson Howard
>h265 >compress better No.
Jacob Cruz
I did a few 2-pass 1 and 4 mbps vbr encodes with VP9 and HEVC about a year ago and the HEVC video looked significantly better than the VP9 video and took significantly less time to encode.