Comment Re:Or you can just... (Score 1) 108
Every...study has shown that the best available VP8 encoders require almost 2x the bitrate of the best H.264 high profile encoders.
Got links?
Sure... this is the most comprehensive qualitative test I've seen, using a huge varietry of sources and metrics. See conclusions section on page 93, which shows WebM requiring >2x the bits of x264 for the same quality.
A rigorous subjective comparison can be found here, using the Double Stimulus Continuous Quality Scale methdololgy.
Note in both subjective and objective comparisons, WebM takes 2x or more bits to achieve the same quality at web bitrates of ~500 kbps.
At much higher bitrates, the quality differences narrow. But high bitrates aren't valuable for Internet use cases, and in any case at 2.5 Mbps and SD resolution, even inefficient codecs like MPEG-2 or WMV8 look good.