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The article leaves out what is my opinion the #1 reason to use H.264 - hardware decoding support. When I watch VP9 videos, the decoder runs in software on the c
by tbirdz 10y ago
The article leaves out what is my opinion the #1 reason to use H.264 - hardware decoding support. When I watch VP9 videos, the decoder runs in software on the cpu, draining the battery faster than H.264 which can be decoded in hardware with a separate decoding chip.
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoYou slightly overstate the case, since VP9 can be decoded in hardware in various devices, though they are much less numerous than those with h.264 support. What I'd personally rank as the #1 issue would be the refusal of Apple to support VP9 (Microsoft only recently having got on board) So a single file can't be used by your whole audience. Even if Apple says yes today there's a lot of their legacy hardware out there. So this leaves mostly high volume sites that have multiple encodes anyway, and can justify it on quality/bandwidth or those taking a moral stance on the issue, like wikipedia.