Microsoft Announces VP9 Support For Edge

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 8, 2015 @09:20PM from the cleaning-up-the-Edge-cases dept.

An anonymous reader writes: As noted by some a few days ago, Microsoft has started development on new multimedia container and codec support for Edge. Over on the Edge development blog, Microsoft has now officially announced that "WebM/VP9 support is now in development in Microsoft Edge. VP9 is an open source codec that offers efficient compression to stream HD content at lower bitrates, and is well suited to UHD streaming. Initial support for VP9 will be available in Windows Insider Preview builds soon. This is part of our continuing effort to expand codec offerings in Windows. We continue to evaluate other formats and look forward to receiving feedback as we work on implementing them."

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Re:Another year, another video codec by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-08 22:00 · Score: 4, Informative

Just stick with a standard please.
Better, royalty-free video compression than H.264 can offer is needed. VP9 will deliver it today and the codec developed via NetVC and the Alliance for Open Media (of which Microsoft is a member) will deliver it tomorrrow.
VP9 is a video coding format, not a codec by thue · 2015-09-08 22:45 · Score: 1, Informative

> VP9 is an open source codec
No, VP9 is a video coding format. A program which can decode data in VP9 format is a "codec".
Similar to how the C Programming Language is not a compiler.