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lifthrasiir
982 days ago
And even that is limited to iOS, macOS Safari does support Vorbis (with some limitations). It is so widely supported that you would consider a JS decoder for the iOS polyfill.
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mattigames
982 days ago
Yeah, that's what Wikipedia do using this
https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/
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earthboundkid
982 days ago
But why not choose a format that every device supports that is also non-proprietary?
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pseudalopex
981 days ago
MP3 was proprietary when they started. The Vorbis polyfill works. Probably many files do not have a higher quality copy to encode.
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kibibu
980 days ago
Wikimedia commons recommends Ogg Opus over Vorbis these days
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