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by bmicraft 967 days ago
Youtube today is mostly vp9 anyway, if you don't use the h246ify extension which limits you on resolution/framerate anyway on many videos
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Cyberdog 967 days ago
Even on mobile? I sincerely hope when I play a YouTube video on my iPhone it's using the built-in decoder hardware rather than churning through what may as well be Google's proprietary codec on the CPU but I guess I have no way of knowing.
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kcb 967 days ago
Apple has had VP9 hardware decode support for a while.
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