TECHNICAL OVERVIEW OF VP8, AN OPEN SOURCE VIDEO CODEC FOR THE WEB Jim Bankoski, Paul Wilkins, Yaowu Xu Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA, USA {jimbankoski, paulwilkins, yaowu}@google.com ABSTRACT VP8 is an open source video compression format supported by a consortium of technology companies. This paper provides a technical overview of the format, with an emphasis on its uni