 The VP9 specification calls the video coding format VP9 itself a "codec".As an example of conflation, Chromium's and Mozilla's pages listing their video format support both call video coding formats such as H.264 "codecs".As another example, in Cisco's announcement of a free-as-in-beer video codec, the press release refers to the H.264 video coding format as a "codec" ("choice of a common video codec"), but calls Cisco's implementation of a H.264 encoder/decoder a "codec" shortly thereafter ("open-source our H.264 codec").