The adage "like father, like son" has never been more apt than in the relationship between Google’s infrastructure ambitions and the codec that was built to serve them.
The narrative of libvpx cannot be told without discussing its complex relationship with its successor, .
The successor released in 2013; designed to compete with HEVC (H.265), offering roughly 50% better compression than VP8.
Because libvpx is open, it's baked into almost every modern web browser.
