VP9 is armed in the Chromium browser

As previously indicated, VP9 has moved into its search giant browser. Open source, royalty-free video compression technology is considered the successor to VP8. During the development, the goal was to reduce the bit rate by 50%, but so that the image quality would be at the same level as H.264. Obviously, because of YouTube, Google has a strong interest in deploying the new video codec as soon as possible. Decreasing the bitrate also changes the file size and bandwidth requirements in a favorable direction, which is especially good for a video splitter of this size.

The programmers didn’t loose at all, the latest Chromium pre-armed with VP9 by default. The next step will be stabilization, bug fixes, and then the video codec can appear in Google Chrome.