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Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by lern_too_spel on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:42PM (#16119839)
H.264 is a legacy codec from the VP8 generation and is only needed to support legacy platforms. Current Internet encodes for modern devices should be VP9 (nobody's going to step into the HEVC patent pool minefield), and future encodes should be AV1.
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