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by ReactiveJelly 1645 days ago
It's always gonna be chicken-and-egg for this, and browsers won't spend the time sandboxing and supporting a codec until it's already popular.

So this will probably see a JS / Webasm shim, and if that proves popular, Blink and Gecko will consider it.

The day might come soon when browsers just greenlight a webasm interface for codecs. "We'll put packets in through this function, and take frames out through this function, like ffmpeg. Other than that, you're running in a sandbox with X MB of RAM, Y seconds of CPU per frame, and no I/O. Anything you can accomplish within that, with user opt-in, is valid."