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It would also be extremely confusing to support something with only hardware decoding. People running supported hardware would start saying things like "Firefox
by floatboth 4y ago
It would also be extremely confusing to support something with only hardware decoding. People running supported hardware would start saying things like "Firefox supports HEVC" which would sound plainly wrong to someone with unsupported hardware.
- kfarr 4y agoYes a decade ago this was the Firefox approach to h264 -- leverage OS/hardware support if available. Can confirm horrible experience for devs and viewers
- formerly_proven 4y agoOn the other hand, basically all platforms of the last few years support hardware decoding of HEVC. nVidia does, Intel does, AMD does... so pretty much for every PC made in the last ~six or so years: - You paid the royalties for HEVC, possibly multiple times - It can almost certainly encode and decode HEVC without breaking a sweat - You (practically) can't use it ("if it's not on the web, it's dead")