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Hardware accelerated codecs happened.

• eyelidlessness 5y ago
  And HTML5 video, with royalty-free codecs eventually becoming more viable and capable while MPEG-LA licensing terms became more and more absurd.
• plorkyeran 5y ago
  And ffmpeg. An open-source, cross platform set of video libraries made the proprietary and system-specific ones a lot less interesting.
  • kalleboo 5y ago
    Although back in the day there was an FFmpeg plugin for QuickTime! https://www.perian.org/ https://www.perian.org/