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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 haruchai · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lack of 3rd-party support never stopped M$ & others from implementing anything so why should Mozilla give a damn.
    GIF has been too limited for a very long time and MNG is too complex and far less support than APNG despite being around longer.

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  2. Re:4 years later by Tough+Love · · Score: -1, Troll

    What makes you think VP9 is a second rate codec, can you quantify that?

    If not, guess what that makes you.

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