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I was intrigued by this statement: > A better video streaming experience for Windows users: Firefox now supports the next-generation, royalty-free video compre

by lol768 8y ago

I was intrigued by this statement: > A better video streaming experience for Windows users: Firefox now supports the next-generation, royalty-free video compression technology called AV1 Since I don't care about Windows, I was curious as to whether this had already shipped for other platforms or not. At least using Firefox Developer Edition v66, it works fine behind the media.av1.enabled flag on Linux. ---- Also seems that https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/#firefox65 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities... has yet to be updated.

gourlaysama 8y ago
> I was curious as to whether this had already shipped for other platforms or not. AV1 support is available on all platforms behing the flag; this release just enables it by default on Windows [1]. [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1452146 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1452146
- TD-Linux 8y ago
  AV1 also uses the brand new media codec sandboxing feature (RDD process). It has platform specific code, hence why only Windows was ready by 65 (but Mac + Linux should be available soon).