Discussion For WebMedia Video Format(WebM) in Minefield

[NVD]

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issu ... ?id=180280

Remove VP9 flag, and enable VP9 support by default.

Chromium has VP9 support enabled by default.

[NVD]

https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject ... bMo00Gvops

On the decoder side we have recently started optimizing for arm and so far have about a x2 speed up. For Intel architectures we have improved decode speed by about x1.3. Plenty more to come!

[Omega X]

Only 1.3x? Pitiful.

[NVD]

VP9 support added to Firefox 28.0 with latest Nightly builds.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833023

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=918550

http://html5test.com/

Can't test on Youtube though, because Youtube still serves VP8 to Firefox on their page with VP9 videos after turning off Media Foundation in about:config..

http://www.youtube.com/user/WebMVP9

[Are You A Wiiizard?]

VP9 support added to Firefox 28.0 with latest Nightly builds.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833023
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=918550
http://html5test.com/
Can't test on Youtube though, because Youtube still serves VP8 to Firefox on their page with VP9 videos after turning off Media Foundation in about:config..
http://www.youtube.com/user/WebMVP9

With Media Source Extensions preference at it's default (disabled) and opted into Youtube html5 player I get a crash. With MSE enabled their is no crash but the video does not play. When I go "stats for nerds" it lists it using vp9.