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Originally Posted by mzso
Also vp9 has ~50% more bandwidth here. Which is a LOT.
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That's only the 1080p version, which honestly never really had the bandwidth it should have had from the beginning.
720p on the other hand has a much more comparable filesize.
720p fmt247: 427MB VP9 + 33MB vorbis = 460MB
720p fmt136: 382MB h.264 + 52MB AAC = 434MB
720p fmt22: 619MB h.264 + AAC
EDIT: I just downloaded the 720p VP9 version and was testing the playback in Chrome and I noticed that my CPU usage was hitting a maximum average of 70%! Now my CPU is decently old (Athlon 64 x2 4800+ Brisbane G2) but that still seems pretty high to me seeing how I can playback 720p h.264
without hardware acceleration on my CPU underclocked to a measly 1GHz.
Of course, it might just be because it's Chrome rather than a dedicated media player application, but when I tried to play back in VLC v2.1.3 I just got tons of macro-blocking errors...
