by Stephen Shankland, CNet news.com
Google has begun answering concerns that VP8, the compression technology it hopes will invigorate and liberate Web video, isn’t as good as a rival. Which is better at compressing video, H.264 or VP8? Some sites such as Quavlive offer comparisons. Nobody questions that VP8 is superior to Theora, the encoding-decoding “codec” that also has been available without royalties. But some have concluded that it’s not as good as H.264, aka AVC, today’s dominant but definitely not royalty-free codec.
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