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Re:Safari Technology Preview supports 100% of the ES2015/16/... by dragonwriter on Friday December 09, 2016 @12:26PM (#13140086)
> Are there any normal desktops/laptops that support it?

From what I've been able to find:

NVidia Pascal has full hardware decoding for VP9, as does the NVidia GM206.

And Intel's (now shipping, but not in consumer hands yet until probably next month, IIRC) Kaby Lake has full hardware decoding support, too.

(A lot more existing GPUs have hybrid support, but that's still got a CPU cost.)

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Re:Safari Technology Preview supports 100% of the ES2015/16/... by MBCook on Friday December 09, 2016 @08:05PM (#13143334)
Interesting. Given basically everyone but Google is happy with H.264 I'm surprised they would bother.
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Re:Safari Technology Preview supports 100% of the ES2015/16/... by dragonwriter on Saturday December 10, 2016 @03:06AM (#13144670)
> Given basically everyone but Google is happy with H.264 I'm surprised they would bother.

Well, YouTube alone is something like 1/6 of internet traffic, and probably a sizable amount of the time people spend on the internet.

And everyone besides Google isn't happy with H.264, either. While it's true that Google is the main source of VP9, Netflix 4K is, IIRC, H.265-only (for which hardware acceleration is becoming more common just as it is for VP9).

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