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of course its politics. Google ships chrome with unoptimized h.264 software decoder causing 1080p60 h.264 YT clips to stutter on 4GHz intel while more cpu inte

by rasz_pl 10y ago

of course its politics. Google ships chrome with unoptimized h.264 software decoder causing 1080p60 h.264 YT clips to stutter on 4GHz intel while more cpu intensive vp9 is butter smooth, and same 1080p60 h.264 clips downloaded to disk play at 30% cpu in mplayer.

emn13 10y ago
That's not just politics, it's also patents.
- rasz_pl 10y ago
  patents dont make people ship software compiled without optimization. Intel did same thing with its compiler to push cpus, Nvidia with physx compiled to use FPU instead of SSE/AVX and so on, its all politics.