VP9 Overview
VP9 is available to all customers. Like HEVC, VP9 is able to achieve significantly higher compression at a given level of quality than H.264. Browser support includes Chrome, Firefox and Opera. Device support is currently limited to Android though many of the major connected TV manufactures are beginning to add VP9 support as part of the YouTube logo certification program.
video_codec_profile
video_codec_profile: Sets the encoding profile. All four VP9 profiles are supported with the exception of 4:4:0 sampling in profiles 1 and 3.
Supported Profiles:
- 0: 8-bit color, 4:2:0 sampling only.
- 1: 8-bit color, 4:4:4, 4:2:2, and 4:4:0 sampling.
- 2: 10-bit and 12-bit color only, with 4:2:0 sampling.
- 3: 10-bit and 12-bit color only, with 4:2:2/4:4:4/4:4:0 sampling.