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VP9 Overview
VP9 is a next-generation video compression format developed by the
WebM Project. VP9 supports the full range of web and mobile use cases from
low bitrate compression to high-quality ultra-HD, with additional support for
10/12-bit encoding and HDR.
VP9 can reduce video bit rates by as much as 50% compared with other known
codecs. It is supported for adaptive streaming and is used by YouTube as
well as other leading web video providers.
VP9 decoding is supported on over 2 billion end points including Chrome,
Opera, Edge, Firefox and Android devices, as well as millions of smart TVs.
Continue to Getting Started
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Last updated 2023-05-25 UTC.
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