VP9 in the middle of June!!

According to recent rumors on the internet Google plans to finish the development of his new technology for compressing video by the middle of June. After Google finis this development this technology will be available in Google Chrome and YouTube.

VP9 is a new generation Google’s video codecs based on open source code that should be included in MebM Project. This is a Google project that aims to provide support for multimedia Web that will be exempt from licensing and currently combines VP8 with Vorbis audio codec. MebM Google has introduced three years ago, but failed to gain more popularity as compared to the currently dominant H.264, which is required to pay appropriate compensation to the owner’s technologies included in this standard. Although it should be exempt from licensing, nor VP8 is not completely clear the situation, given that in the dispute with Nokia related to patent infringement. For the new standard, VP9, it is not clear whether there will be any claims for infringement of patents, but has been known to have great competition in the form of an heir H.264, called HEVC or H.265. In fact, both the new standards should be half the data for the same image quality as the previous generation, and the same amount of data, offering the ability to display images of higher quality or resolution.

In addition to the new video codecs, Google announced a new audio codec, called Opus, and the existing WebM container be expanded to support the two new technologies.