2016

>Youtube, Wikipedia...

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Do you use Youtube?

Yes, and it works perfectly on Safari, thank you.

GIF is shit. It needs to be replaced by WebM.

>gay porn sites aren't using it
>apple doesn't support it

coincidence?

>not WebP
WebM is for videos, not animations.

That's great for you that it works, but that's totally besides my point.
Youtube uses webm in it's html 5 player.
Saying webm isn't being used alot, while the biggest video sharing site supports it, is just simply wrong.

Because VP8/VP9 don't have readily available hardware acceleration, meaning that for most people playing WebMs is done with the CPU with a software decoder, heating the machine up and gulping down battery like crazy.

H.264 playback on the other hand is hardware accelerated in damned near every device made since 2008 and can be done extremely efficiently.

Apple's most popular products are mobile: iPhones, iPads, Macbooks. Battery life is a huge priority for them. It makes perfect sense that they have little interest in supporting something that most devices can't do in an efficient manner.

h.264 is owned by a patent troll and shouldn't be used

You're not wrong, but that's not something consumers care about. What consumers DO care about is when watching youtube cuts their laptop's battery life in half for no apparent reason.

Works for me

I just drag and drop webms on mpv icon ;^)

h.264 is a bait switch they are going to what fraunhofer did with mp3 and microsoft did with FAT

Apple is closely associated with MPEG, the makers of H.264 and AAC.

Perian?

VLC web plugin

"the most advanced operating system"

yeah. kinda annoying have to switch to chrome whenever i feel like going to /gif/

Well then you should blame Apple for not implementing codec hardware acceleration on their chips.

Latest Snapdragons are now able to decode 4k h.265/VP9 (and soon AV1) 60fps.

That only works going forward. VP8/VP9 would still need to be disabled on old devices.

because webm isn't used anywhere except autistic persian carpet boards. also install the fucking vlc plugin for webm you idiot.

Courage

MPEG is the industry standard for consumer video and there's no indication that this has changed.

VP9 and whatever other On2/Xiph codecs out there are pet projects for the freetard audience that Google loves pandering to.

Terrible damage control

Because Facebook doesn't support webms.

>MPEG is the industry standard for consumer video and there's no indication that this has changed.

Except it isn't anymore. Thats's why every single major tech company (except Apple) is behind AV1 over the garbage HEVC.

Does the A10 from Apple even have VP9 acceleration?

>>Does the A10 from Apple even have VP9 acceleration?
Doubt it, demand for that feature isn't exactly overwhelming

How do YOU know gay sites don't support it? When are you telling your parents?

/thread

>Except it isn't anymore.

Except it is. HEVC is the codec for UHD Blu-ray and will succeed H.264 as the de facto video codec for all consumer video.

AV1 is just Google trying to force its way into a fight with MPEG via YouTube. It is the HD-DVD of next-gen video codecs. No one else gives a shit.

Apple does not care about costumers, come on it's common knowledge.

>The Alliance’s membership assures that AV1 will enjoy prompt deployment once available. Members Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla ensure fast integration into Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, while members Amazon, Google, and Netflix should start distributing AV1-encoded content soon after playback is widely available. Members AMD, ARM, Intel, and NVIDIA should offer support in their CPUs, GPUs, SoCs, and other hardware components, which Google and Microsoft should rapidly deploy on their mobile platforms, and Amazon and Google quickly integrate in their OTT devices.

Broadcast and optical media, two dead mediums is what HEVC has.

Holy fuck I didn't know Apple fans are this bad, that they would actively root against a free as in freedom codec.

Because the VLC plugin exists.

I'll sum it up in one word:

Courage

The only right answer in this thread

Is there anyway to play webm videos on Microsoft Edge?

>If we can't do it you don't need it!

Apple in a nutshell

Some other members of the MPEG group are:-
DAEWOO
Cisco Technology, Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Company
Microsoft Corporation
Panasonic Corporation
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sony Corporation
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
In fact, just about everybody with an interest in audio. Around 35 outfits in all.
Cherry-pick away, user.

>they would actively root against a free as in freedom codec.
Your "free" codec has an Achilles Heel.
The promoters have agreed not to charge for or litigate about the use of their codec.
But they have not offered any protection/compensation if their codec is shown to infringe someone else's IP. All users would be exposed.
There are so many patents in this area that are totally unknown. These so-called "submarine" patents can surface once the number of infringing users reaches a level where litigation becomes a viable revenue source.
And the freetards offer no protection to their users.

The hardware vendors just joined a few months ago.

>plugin to view a video

might as well install flash

>tfw can't webm on iPhone at all
Fuck

Thanks, almost forgot to install.