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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:Animated PNG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You mean the non-standard APNG format that was invented by Mozilla and is pretty much only supported by them?

  2. YouTube by tepples · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Once both Firefox and Chrome support VP9, YouTube's HTML5 player will probably be using VP9 to save your bandwidth, especially when viewers like you turn on 720p or higher resolution.

  3. Re:4 years later by Tough+Love · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps Youtube is something you want to watch. But riddle me this: what is it about open source video codecs that brings out the trolls?

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    When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
  4. Re:never heard of VP8 or VP9 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well half of the acronyms/abbreviations you just rattled off are container formats and VP8/9 are video codecs, so you're comparing a fruit salad to an apple, so to speak.

    Slashdot pedant says: more like he's comparing a salad bowl to a fruit salad.