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by ZeroGravitas 3759 days ago
The browser makers all agreed to support both VP8 and H.264 encode and decode as part of a big compromise in the IETF standards body. It means non-browser clients can implement one or the other (depending on if they're hippies or corporate) and still be able to talk to any browser (except Safari, which I think is still quiet on what it's WebRTC approach will be.
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Firefox and Chrome are also shipping VP9 for WebRTC.