Lowlevel VPx details

Documentation

• VP9 bitstream specification draft, RTP Payload Format for VP9 Video, more
• VP9 bitstream overview (obsolete)
• VP8 data format RFC
• Overview of VP9 technical details
• Intra Compression Efficiency in VP9 and HEVC
• Overview of the VP9 video codec

Slides/blog posts

• http://files.meetup.com/9842252/Overview-VP9.pdf
• https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/85/slides/slides-85-videocodec-4.pdf
• http://www.slideshare.net/pfleidi/the-vp8-video-codec
• http://www.slideshare.net/DSPIP/google-vp8
• https://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2014/02/22/the-worlds-fastest-vp9-decoder-ffvp9/
• http://streamingcodecs.blogspot.com/2014/01/vp9-video-codec.html

Related

• xiph posts on video encoding, videos and slides
• Dirac docs, many described concepts are not limited only to Diract codec itself
• The H.264 Advanced Video Compression Standard, book on AVC internals, most of concepts are the same in both VP9 and HEVC
• JPEG overview, video codecs share many similar technics
• Video and Audio Compression, brief overview