Optimizing performance for faster decoding on Handsets

VP9 is an open and royalty-free video coding format developed by Google. VP9 codec was developed with the intention of reducing bit rate by 50% compared to VP8, while having the same video quality. The VP9 video codec is supported on Mozilla, and Google’s Chrome browser.

MulticoreWare accelerated VP9 decoding solutions on a high-end Android mobile device by various performance optimization methods, including rendering script optimization for inter & intra predication and WPP opt for loop filter on CPU.

These optimizations are made available to all developers through the WebM open-source project. The accelerated VP9 decoder supports playback of high quality 1080P YouTube video at 30 frames per second, providing a power efficient solution for mobile devices, tablets, smart TVs etc.

Key features include:

• Fast Adaptive Bitrate Encoding
• High Performance Live Encoding
• Quality Optimized Live Encoding
• GPU Accelerated HEVC Encoding
• Optimized Capped-VBR Encoding
• Optimized Encoding for ABR Streaming