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Originally Posted by FranceBB
MPEG-LA, making yet another company fly away from MPEG Codecs...  |
Facebook has been saying they're doing that for
years. But with so many devices without VP9 or AV1, H.264 remains the only codec one can encode to if one wants to encode just one thing. Beyond H.264 requires either a multi-codec strategy or a limited set of players (I think Apple TV is
only HEVC, and just isn't available on non-HEVC devices).
Doing multi-codec VP9 isn't such a big deal for web browsers and short form user-generated content without DRM, as the major browsers all include software VP9 decoders. It's movie-length content (due to battery life) and premium content (due to hardware DRM requirements) where using real hardware decoders makes a big difference.