Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome

Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by ksec on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:12AM (#33340365)

I just want the best codec, and I am willing to a pay a dollar for it.

For Video, H.266 / VVC is just technically superior in every single way. For Images, JPEG Xl is the best for 95%+ of use cases. For audio, we have a AAC-LC, literally as ubiquitous as MP3, true patent free, and at 128+kbps, 95% of cases as good as the state of the audio codec.

And yet we end up in a world where the only accepted choice is AV1 for video, AVIF for images and Opus for Audio.

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Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by atoav on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:27AM (#33340444)

While I agree with the rest, I must say that in one point you are wrong. Opus is better than AAC-LC. It spans a much wider spectrum of bitrates and it sounds good¹ at any of those. On top Opus is open source which AAC-LC is not afaik.

--- ¹ good is subjective, I earn my money as a freelance audio engineer, so I should have the ears to notice anything wrong with it.

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Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by doc_gunthrop on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:25AM (#33340431)

For audio there's also OGG Vorbis, which is open-source and royalty-free and superior to MP3 at comparable bitrates.

EDIT: looks like opus is actually the successor to Vorbis.

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