[FFmpeg-devel] Video codec design for very low-end decoder

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2019-01-07 18:37 GMT+01:00, Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 12:22 PM Lauri Kasanen <cand at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 12:02:58 -0500
>> "Ronald S. Bultje" <rsbultje at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Have you considered vp8? It may sound weird but this is basically what
>> vp8
>> > was great at: being really simple to decode.
>>
>> VP8 has a reputation of being slow, so I didn't consider it. Benchmarks
>> show it as decoding slower than h264.
>>
>
> It is faster than h264 when comparing ffh264 vs. ffvp8:
>
> https://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/files/2014/02/sintel_decspeed.png

Are the relations identical without asm optimizations?

Carl Eugen