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The article claims that AV1 works since FF 65 but the examples do not work on FF 66.

dwheeler 7y ago
Confirm, doesn't work for me on FF on Windows. And this is a challenge for a "new" format: if AV1 works on 90% of systems, and GIF works on 100%, then in many cases GIF is the clearly correct solution. Why would I throw away 10% of my money? Why would I ignore 10% of my customers? In many businesses, just a few customer calls because of this could seriously hurt profitability.
- sp332 7y ago
  The article shows how to make a fallback that serves GIF in cases where AV1 is not supported. That saves you 90% of your bandwidth for 90% of your image loads.
milansuk 7y ago
I'm running Chromium 73 on Debian 9 and AV1 examples also don't work. edit: I've downloaded first example[1] and video player won't play it neither. edit2: Firefox 66 works! [1] https://www.singhkays.com/blog/its-time-replace-gifs-with-av1-video/media/scene1/av1_200k.mp4 https://www.singhkays.com/blog/its-time-replace-gifs-with-av...
aidenn0 7y ago
Can also confirm does not work on firefox 66 for me; chromium does work though.
- deleted 7y ago
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sp332 7y ago
64-bit Windows users only, according to the release notes. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/65.0/releasenotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/65.0/releasenotes/ Edit: as ataylor pointed out, Mac support was added in 66.0 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0/releasenotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0/releasenotes/
ataylor32 7y ago
Are you on Linux? https://caniuse.com/#feat=av1 https://caniuse.com/#feat=av1 says that FF 66 has it enabled by default only for Windows and macOS users.
- nacs 7y ago
  I'm on Firefox 66 on Mac and the last couple AV1 videos don't play.
matthberg 7y ago
Odd, it's working for me: Firefox 66.0.5 (64-bit) on Windows 10
vortico 7y ago
Set `media.av1.enabled` to true in about:config.
- skosch 7y ago
  That worked for me on Linux FF 66. Thank you.
xmichael999 7y ago
Thier claims about encoding working in ffmpeg are also untrue..
- singhkays 7y ago
  Author here: Can you clarify this?

Confirm, doesn't work for me on FF on Windows. And this is a challenge for a "new" format: if AV1 works on 90% of systems, and GIF works on 100%, then in many cases GIF is the clearly correct solution. Why would I throw away 10% of my money? Why would I ignore 10% of my customers? In many businesses, just a few customer calls because of this could seriously hurt profitability.

sp332 7y ago
The article shows how to make a fallback that serves GIF in cases where AV1 is not supported. That saves you 90% of your bandwidth for 90% of your image loads.

milansuk 7y ago

I'm running Chromium 73 on Debian 9 and AV1 examples also don't work. edit: I've downloaded first example[1] and video player won't play it neither. edit2: Firefox 66 works! [1] https://www.singhkays.com/blog/its-time-replace-gifs-with-av1-video/media/scene1/av1_200k.mp4 https://www.singhkays.com/blog/its-time-replace-gifs-with-av...

aidenn0 7y ago

Can also confirm does not work on firefox 66 for me; chromium does work though.

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sp332 7y ago

64-bit Windows users only, according to the release notes. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/65.0/releasenotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/65.0/releasenotes/ Edit: as ataylor pointed out, Mac support was added in 66.0 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0/releasenotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0/releasenotes/

ataylor32 7y ago

Are you on Linux? https://caniuse.com/#feat=av1 https://caniuse.com/#feat=av1 says that FF 66 has it enabled by default only for Windows and macOS users.

nacs 7y ago
I'm on Firefox 66 on Mac and the last couple AV1 videos don't play.

matthberg 7y ago

Odd, it's working for me: Firefox 66.0.5 (64-bit) on Windows 10

vortico 7y ago

Set `media.av1.enabled` to true in about:config.

skosch 7y ago
That worked for me on Linux FF 66. Thank you.

xmichael999 7y ago

Thier claims about encoding working in ffmpeg are also untrue..

singhkays 7y ago
Author here: Can you clarify this?