One of several codecs coming to Edge
Microsoft this week announced that it’s planning to support the open source VP9 codec first developed by Google and the WebM container in its Edge browser for Windows 10. Initial support will roll out to Windows Insider Preview builds sometime “soon,” and we suspect general availability won’t be far behind.
“Our implementation of VP9 will support software decoding and, when supported by the device, hardware decoding. Since decoding video is …read more