VP9

open and royalty-free video coding format released by Google in 2013
CreativeWork video_compression_format Q3815169
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VP9

Summary

VP9 is a video compression format[1]. VP9 draws 475 Wikipedia views per month (video_compression_format category, ranking #4 of 24).[2]

Key Facts

  • VP9's instance of is recorded as video compression format[3].
  • VP9's instance of is recorded as open file format[4].
  • VP9's based on is recorded as VP8[5].
  • VP9's logo image is recorded as Vp9-logo-for-mediawiki.svg[6].
  • VP9's follows is recorded as VP8[7].
  • VP9's follows is recorded as TrueMotion[8].
  • VP9's followed by is recorded as AV1[9].
  • VP9's developer is recorded as Google[10].
  • VP9's part of the series is recorded as TrueMotion[11].
  • VP9's part of is recorded as WebM[12].
  • VP9's Commons category is recorded as VP9[13].
  • +2013-06-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of VP9[14].
  • VP9's publication date is recorded as +2012-12-00T00:00:00Z[15].
  • VP9's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0pclx32[16].
  • VP9's official website is recorded as https://www.webmproject.org/vp9/[17].
  • VP9's topic's main category is recorded as Category:VP9[18].
  • VP9's Commons gallery is recorded as VP9[19].
  • VP9's described at URL is recorded as https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/docs/vp9/vp9-bitstream-specification-v0.6-20160331-draft.pdf[20].
  • VP9's media type is recorded as video/VP9[21].
  • VP9's Library of Congress Format Description Document ID is recorded as fdd000579[22].
  • VP9's File Format Wiki page ID is recorded as VP9[23].
  • VP9's Quora topic ID is recorded as VP9[24].
  • VP9's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19930302[25].
  • VP9's derivative work is recorded as AV1[26].
  • VP9's GitHub topic is recorded as vp9[27].

Body

Publication

VP9's publication date is recorded as +2012-12-00T00:00:00Z[15]. VP9's part of is recorded as WebM[12]. VP9's part of the series is recorded as TrueMotion[11].

Subject and Themes

VP9's part of the series is recorded as TrueMotion[11].

Adaptations and Inspiration

Predecessors include VP8[7] and TrueMotion[8]. VP9's followed by is recorded as AV1[9].

Why It Matters

VP9 draws 475 Wikipedia views per month (video_compression_format category, ranking #4 of 24).[2] VP9 has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] VP9 is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . h-online.com. h-online.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . datatracker.ietf.org. datatracker.ietf.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). VP9. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/vp9
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_vp9_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{VP9}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/vp9}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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