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Hardware decoding is nothing more than a nice to have on desktops. On mobile, it’s mandatory. HEVC is the only format you can be assured will work there.

• izacus 6y ago
  And AVC. And VP9.
  • grishka 6y ago
    VP9 (and VP8) are only hardware accelerated on Android. On iOS, you only have AVC and HEVC.
    • izacus 6y ago
      And Windows, macOS and Linux.
      • grishka 6y ago
        No, definitely not on macOS. It uses the same VideoToolbox framework iOS does. You could probably write a kernel extension to add VPx support yourself tho.
        • izacus 6y ago
          macOS Big Sur supports VP9 hardware decoding through VideoToolbox.
          • grishka 6y ago
            TIL