September 1st, 2016 by Smile Harney
Compared with the royalty charges tied with HEVC or H.265 codec, the biggest advantage of VP9 is that VP9 codec is an open source and royalty free codec. VP9 can provide the same video transmission quality as H.265, if not better, and is supported by YouTube and its 19 hardware partners. So if want to upload videos in this free VP9 codec to YouTube or your blog, etc, you can use iDealshare VideoGo to convert other videos like MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, MKV, MPG, TS, H.265, AVCHD, MXF, MOD, TOD etc to VP9.
It is relatively easy for web browsers, like Chrome, Opera, Firefox, etc to install VP9 encoder to support VP9, but it is not that easy for mobile devices, media players or other softwares to support VP9. So if you want to play VP9 on your iPhone, iPad, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, iTunes, Samsung, etc you can also use iDealshare VideoGo to convert VP9 to other normally used video formats, like MP4, AVI, etc.
So whatever you want to convert other videos to VP9 or convert VP9 to other videos you can both rely on iDealshare VideoGo, because iDealshare VideoGo can work both as a VP9 encoder and a VP9 decoder.
The following step by step guide will take converting MP4 to VP9 as the example. The guide can also work to convert other videos to VP9 or convert VP9 to other videos. Batch converting video to VP9 or batch converting VP9 to video is supported.
Free download the ideal VP9 Encoder and Decorder for Windows or Mac version - iDealshare VideoGo (Windows Version, Mac Version), install and run it, the following interface will pop up.
Click "Add file" button to add MP4 to iDealshare VideoGo. You can also choose to drag and drop the MP4 to iDealshare VideoGo.
Click "Profile" button to choose "WebM VP9 HTML5 Video (*.webm)" from "Web Video" category as your exporting format.
If you want to convert VP9 to other video format, Click "Profile" button to choose MP4, AVI, etc from "General Video" category as your exporting format.
Click "Convert" button to finish converting and encodeing MP4 to VP9.