Does anyone else feel it's weird that there's only one blog that everyone happens to link to whenever something related to vp8 springs up? It's been half a year, you would think there are independently arrived analyses by now.
Most people could probably agree that taking everything that John Gruber says as the truth without any other sources is a bad idea, but that's exactly the landscape of evidence presented for/against vp8. Thankfully, Dark Shikari's writeup is great, but there really needs to be more evidence.
It's strange everybody points to the same source, but it's not unusual there is only one source.
Break it down: How many codec developers do you know? How many of those people do open source implementation comparisons? How many of those write it up? How many of those write it up intelligently for public consumption?
Also, there are probably many people (myself included) who are familiar with implementation details of video codecs, but after reading Jason's articles decide that he basically said everything there was to be said.
It's been half a year, you would think there are independently arrived analyses by now.
I wouldn't think that. You can't swing a stick without hitting a run-of-the-mill CRUD application developer — and judging from the articles that come across the HN feed it looks like everybody and their dog has invented a programming language — but video codec developers don't grow on trees. Besides, 6 months isn't that long at the pace that field seems to move.
Most people could probably agree that taking everything that John Gruber says as the truth without any other sources is a bad idea, but that's exactly the landscape of evidence presented for/against vp8. Thankfully, Dark Shikari's writeup is great, but there really needs to be more evidence.