The world’s best VP9 encoder: Eve

&gt; Compared to x264, it offers 15-20% better compression rates, but is ~5x slower.<p>This is interesting. H.265 and VP9 claim to use nearly 50% lower bitrate at the same quality level as H.264. Is this just a case of x264 being really well optimized that VP9 can only compress 20% better at the same quality?

The article leaves out what is my opinion the #1 reason to use H.264 - hardware decoding support. When I watch VP9 videos, the decoder runs in software on the cpu, draining the battery faster than H.264 which can be decoded in hardware with a separate decoding chip.

too bad it&#x27;s not open-sourced.

&quot;We are hoping to test it with customers who are willing to pay for it, so we can build a business around it that can sustain its development and pay the rent etc.&quot;<p>Useless, moving on.

What settings are you using for x264?

I opened this article half expecting an essay about EVE Online doing something wonky on their backend.