VP8 Decoder Implemented In Flash Using Alchemy 94
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla's Chris Double has an interesting post on his blog about a port of the VP8 decoder to Flash. He writes, 'Ralph Hauwert has been posting on twitter about work he's done on getting WebM decoding to work by compiling the libvpx source code using Adobe's Alchemy technology. Alchemy is a research project that allows compilation of C and C++ libraries into code that runs on the ActionScript virtual machine used by Flash.' Of course, it's very slow and Adobe says that they'll bring native VP8 support to Flash in due course, but implementing a VP8 decoder in ActionScript is an interesting project nonetheless."
Re:So let's see: (Score:4, Insightful)
I take issue with the HEAACplus vs Vorbis comparison you chose.
At the sort of bitrates that are actually used in streaming HD video all lossy encoders are essentially transparent, even old war horses like MP3. Performance at lower bitrates is academic at best. Vorbis beats all comers in the 80-96kbps range, and HEAACplus beats all comers under 64kbps, but neither is relevant to HD streaming video.