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Because of this reason, AV1 is now disabled for mobile devices. On desktop hardware support is not critical.

• basch 8y ago
  what percent of desktops are laptops?
  • martinald 8y ago
    Agreed, and I bet AV1 is really heavy on CPU.
  • iskin 8y ago
    Right now 30% of the global market uses AV1 enabled Chrome and Firefox on desktops.
• ysleepy 8y ago
  My Notebook's fan starts spinning quite annoyingly because youtube does vp9. Just for comfort I prefer hardware decoding.
  • jorvi 8y ago
    'media.webm.enabled' set to 'false' in Firefox's about:config will disable VP8 and VP9, gracefully falling back to (hardware accelerated) MP4 in almost all cases. This will break .webm and .webp images though.
    • mort96 8y ago
      Could there be some way to only disable webm on youtube? Disabling webm for all of the web just because it makes youtube annoying seems unfortunate.
      • earenndil 8y ago
        There's an addon called h264ify that does just that. To test if it's working, go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 https://www.youtube.com/html5 and 'WebM VP8' and 'MSE & WebM VP9' are unchecked. Alternately, go to any youtube video and right click->stats for nerds.