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Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by mustache_kimono on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @08:20PM (#33338065)
And -- universality of the playback. "Why don't people adopt Vorbis?" almost answers itself, "Where/on what devices are they going to play it?" Without looking -- does your Apple TV support X?
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Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by alwayslikethis on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:58PM (#33339644)
For the record, it seems like more and more devices are supporting Opus for general use cases. It seems to be the audio codec end game - at 16kbps it sounds as good to me as 64kbps mp3
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Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by mustache_kimono on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:50PM (#33347759)
> For the record, it seems like more and more devices are supporting Opus for general use cases

Yes, exactly and AFAIK it's because Chrome/Google/YouTube has recently supported Opus to the exclusion of these proprietary formats for higher quality (read HEVC level) video.

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