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Re:Apple Backs AV1: What Does This Mean for the Future of Vi... by acdha on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @07:04PM (#16321169)
It’s only vastly used if you mean “YouTube transcodes all of their H.264 into VP8 so you can hear your CPU fan”. It’s exceedingly rare to see a webm file without a corresponding MP4 file.
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Re:Apple Backs AV1: What Does This Mean for the Future of Vi... by clouddrover on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @07:14PM (#16321227)
It depends on the resolution. YouTube stopped offering 4K H.264 encodes about a year ago:

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Online-Video-New...

Apple might never add VP9 support but 4K video from YouTube will work again once YouTube starts encoding to AV1 and Apple adds AV1 support.

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