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You 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. M
by wolf550e 11y ago
You 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 11y agoThe "not invented here" principle strikes again.
- magicalist 11y 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 11y agoAh. Well, YouTube has a paid service and I guess they're fighting the codec monopoly.
- izacus 11y 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 :)