Re:The world’s best VP9 encoder: Eve
by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @08:16AM
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You slightly overstate the case, since VP9 can be decoded in hardware in various devices, though they are much less numerous than those with h.264 support.
What I'd personally rank as the #1 issue would be the refusal of Apple to support VP9 (Microsoft only recently having got on board) So a single file can't be used by your whole audience.
Even if Apple says yes today there's a lot of their legacy hardware out there.
So this leaves mostly high volume sites that have multiple encodes anyway, and can justify it on quality/bandwidth or those taking a moral stance on the issue, like wikipedia.
What I'd personally rank as the #1 issue would be the refusal of Apple to support VP9 (Microsoft only recently having got on board) So a single file can't be used by your whole audience.
Even if Apple says yes today there's a lot of their legacy hardware out there.
So this leaves mostly high volume sites that have multiple encodes anyway, and can justify it on quality/bandwidth or those taking a moral stance on the issue, like wikipedia.