Comparison of H.264 and VC-1

H.264 and VC-1 are popular video compression standards gaining use in the industry as of 2007^[update].

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

• AVC/H264 Licensing costs and terms from MPEG LA
• EEtimes comparison of video codecs [1]
• NAB2005 presentation: codec comparison slides 13-14 at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2014-01-18)
• 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