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Re:AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027 by ferongr on Monday August 20, 2018 @12:25PM (#17801274)
fwiw I've been starting to get HEVC streams from time to time on Windows desktop Chrome when watching Youtube.
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Re:AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027 by BurningCycles on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:46PM (#17802052)
Are you sure it's HEVC, because that would be news indeed.

I've never heard of Youtube serving anything but h264 or VP8/VP9.

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Re:AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027 by ferongr on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:54PM (#17802133)
Yes, I saw the CPU usage icon in the taskbar fill more than usual and instantly enabled the "Stats for Nerds" overlay and the codec was shown there.
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