VP9 is the last official iteration of the TrueMotion series of video formats that Google bought in 2010 for $134 million together with the company On2 Technologies that … See more

VP9 is a traditional block-based transform coding format. The bitstream format is relatively simple compared to formats that offer similar bitrate efficiency like HEVC.
VP9 has many … See more

In March 2019, Luxembourg-based Sisvel announced the formation of patent pools for VP9 and AV1. Members of the pools included JVCKenwood, NTT, Orange S.A., See more

• Official website
• "WebM and the New VP9 Open Video Codec", I/O (YouTube) (video), 2013.
• Bitstream Overview
• Jan Ozer (Streaming Media Magazine), June 2016: VP9 Finally Comes of Age, But Is it Right for Everyone? See more

VP9 is customized for video resolutions greater than 1080p (such as UHD) and also enables lossless compression. It supports resolutions up to 65536×65536, whereas HEVC supports resolutions up to 8192×4320 pixels.
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Adobe Flash, which traditionally used VPx formats up to VP7, was never upgraded to VP8 or VP9, but instead to H.264. Therefore, VP9 often penetrated corresponding web applications only with the gradual shift from Flash to HTML5 technology, which … See more

On September 12, 2014, Google announced that development on VP10 had begun and that after the release of VP10 they planned to have … See more