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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. 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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