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Re:On the Road to WebRTC 1.0, Including VP8 by awill on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:27PM (#19374870)
probably because Apple doesn't have hardware acceleration for vp8. They don't want developers to use it. It'll be an inferior UX. Less battery, hotter device.

It's a bit arrogant for them to compare battery life of h264 to vp8, as they've chosen not to support hardware accelerated vp8. All Android devices have had this for years.

I'm hoping this all settles out with av1. Netflix and Amazon will support av1, so that doesn't leave Apple with much choice.

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Re:On the Road to WebRTC 1.0, Including VP8 by vetinari on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @08:52AM (#19378069)
The Intel chips that Apple uses support VP8 decoding since Broadwell and encoding since Cherryview/Braswell. On the mobile side, it was their conscious decision not to support it, just like they newer supported the free audio codecs or container formats either.
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