What Does VP9 Mean?
VP9 is a video codec technology developed by Google. VP9 is an open-source technology and is free from royalty fees. The VP9 codec is mostly used for streaming videos over the Internet and claims to reduce the bit rate of video transmissions by 50% while maintaining a high quality. The VP9 codec, which is an improvement over the VP8 codec and was previously named “NGOV” (Next Generation Open Video), is supported by both the Chrome browser and YouTube. It is a native format in HTML5 and works with Opus audio and Ogg Vorbis codecs.
Techopedia Explains VP9
The VP9 video format is a royalty-free video compression technology that is contained in the WebM open source project sponsored by Google along with VP8. The VP9 codec is similar to the HEVC (H.265) codec and supports parallel processing. It is capable of reducing the bit rate to half of the original figure without affecting the video quality and enables better streaming for low-end devices like smartphones. It is capable of compressing video files and streams at 4K resolution.
