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Firefox 137 To Support HEVC/H.265 Video Playback On Linux With VA-API (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/linux

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This was intentional. The goal was to discourage the adoption of non-free codecs. They were partially successful, now AV1 is very widely supported (basically only older iThings that don't have hardware decoding support don't support it) which is a huge win because anyone can now deliver video on the web without needing a license to a proprietary codec. I would consider this fact alone a huge benefit and worth them holding other browsers asses to the flame.

[–] Scoopta 4 points 2 days ago

I definitely think this was a good move. Proprietary video codecs are silly and I'm glad VP9 and AV1 have been so widely adopted. I do wish more services used them instead of h.264 but at least it's something.