VP9, the WebM Project's next-generation open video codec, became available on June 17, 2013. This page summarizes post-release VP9 topics of interest to the WebM community.
Last modified 2014-01-03
As of 2013-06-17, VP9 encode and decode support ships in the master branch of libvpx, and is enabled by default.
git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libvpx
cd libvpx
git co master ## likely unnecessary
./configure
make
Or consider an out-of-tree build, described in Build Prerequisites.
VP9 encoder options are listed in the usage output for vpxenc
, in the
section "VP9 Specific Options".
VP9 decode support was first enabled by default in Google Chrome 29 Dev channel (r206883) on 2013-06-26.
VP9 decode support was first added to Firefox Aurora ("pre-beta") nightly builds on 2013-12-06.
Experimental VP9 decode support was added to VLC in version 2.1.2.