Firefox Gains Support for VP9 Video Codec

An anonymous reader writes "With the latest Firefox nightly builds the VP9 video codec is enabled by default. VP9 is a step ahead of the open-source VP8 codec but up to now has only been supported by the Chrome browser. VP9 support will officially appear in Firefox 28."

Re:Animated PNG

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean the non-standard APNG format that was invented by Mozilla and is pretty much only supported by them?

YouTube

[tepples]

Once both Firefox and Chrome support VP9, YouTube's HTML5 player will probably be using VP9 to save your bandwidth, especially when viewers like you turn on 720p or higher resolution.

Re:4 years later

[Tough Love]

Perhaps Youtube is something you want to watch. But riddle me this: what is it about open source video codecs that brings out the trolls?

Re:never heard of VP8 or VP9

[Anonymous Coward]

Well half of the acronyms/abbreviations you just rattled off are container formats and VP8/9 are video codecs, so you're comparing a fruit salad to an apple, so to speak.

Slashdot pedant says: more like he's comparing a salad bowl to a fruit salad.