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Using AV1 <video> tag with a single frame is an amazing hack. Thanks for sharing.
by iskin 7y ago
Using AV1 <video> tag with a single frame is an amazing hack. Thanks for sharing.
- baybal2 7y agoThat's been known since the talk of html5 video tag started. It's not so clever given changing implementation of video prefetch logic, and differing codec behaviour with 1 frame videos with hardware decoders. I knew of few Android devices which claim to be able to do 4k VP9 in hardware, but plainly hang upon playing VP9 from Youtube. Does Android Chrome do JPEG decoding with hardware these days?
- ericmcer 7y agoI would never use it though, I’m guessing it breaks all default browser image behavior. Drag image from browser to desktop, right click, accessibility, etc.
- ape4 7y agoBut needs autoplay=true which works less and less. Even with "muted"