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Firefox Gains Support for VP9 Video Codec

Posted by Unknown on from the death-to-mpeg dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With the latest Firefox nightly builds the VP9 video codec is enabled by default. VP9 is a step ahead of the open-source VP8 codec but up to now has only been supported by the Chrome browser. VP9 support will officially appear in Firefox 28."

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  1. Re:YouTube by epyT-R · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    h264 compresses better. Using vp9 for the same feed will waste bandwidth.