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Why is there no official support? Don't you already pay for the license for the hardware decoder?
by Relys 10y ago
Why is there no official support? Don't you already pay for the license for the hardware decoder?
- wolf550e 10y agoYou get accelerated H264 in Chrome which you paid for (through Apple), but YouTube prefer to serve vp9 if you can decode it, to save their own licensing fees. MS Edge only reports being able to decode vp9 if you have hardware acceleration for it, for battery life.
- astrodust 10y agoThe "not invented here" principle strikes again.
- magicalist 10y ago> but YouTube prefer to serve vp9 if you can decode it, to save their own licensing fees There are no licensing fees for distributing free/ad-supported h264.
- wolf550e 10y agoAh. Well, YouTube has a paid service and I guess they're fighting the codec monopoly.
- izacus 10y agoNot so much licensing fees as bandwidth - VP9 as a new generation codec (H.265 being a rough equivalent) uses less of Googles bandwidth which probably saves Google a lot of money for a "minor" cost of users power draw :)
- izacus 10y agoMost Apple devices don't have VP9 capable hardware decoders. Even those that could do it (new Intels) do not have such capability enabled or exposed in OS X.