Comparison of H.264 and VC-1

H.264 and VC-1 are popular video compression standards gaining use in the industry .

Overview

Terminology

All sources for the below information are from the respective specifications listed in the overview section.

Features

References

External links

• AVC/H264 Licensing costs and terms from MPEG LA
• EEtimes comparison of video codecs https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083832/http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=184417335&pgno=4
• Codec challenge comparison on Doom9 with professional VC1 encoder, PeP, and x264 for H264 => x264 win the first round
• Microsoft employee discusses differences between VC-1 and H.264
• Comparison at Doom9