libvpx is the open-source video codec library developed by Google. It encodes video into the VP9 format. While AV1 is the new king, VP9 is the reliable workhorse used by YouTube and Netflix.
After running a test encode on "The One Where No One's Ready" (a bottle episode mostly set in Monica's apartment), the results are impressive. friends season 03 libvpx
If you are a fan of 90s sitcoms and video compression, you might have found yourself staring at a digitized copy of Friends and wondering: "How would this look if I ran it through a modern encoder like libvpx?" libvpx is the open-source video codec library developed
The VP9 encode manages to cut the file size in half. But does it hold up? After running a test encode on "The One
Appearances by actors like Tom Selleck as Richard Burke. Technical Advantages of libvpx Encoding