There is literally no reason not to allow WebMs encoded with
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There is literally no reason not to allow WebMs encoded with VP9. It saves bandwidth both for the users and the server. Opus would also be a nice addition for the two sound boards. Youtube already uses this for virtually all videos.
>>438887
>It saves bandwidth both for the users and the server
It would be cool if VP9 also saved CPU usage for thumbnailing
>>438887
SOUND WEBMS ON ALL BOARDS WHEN?
>>438895
Is one single frame really significant?
>tfw you have VP9 webms already encoded for when support comes
>>438887
Oh look its this thread again
>>438944
Why would you not want this?
Do you hate good things that benefit everyone?
>>438887
>It saves bandwidth both for the users and the server
It would be the same amount of bandwidth, which in total would usually be 3-4 MB in total.
The real difference will be:
1. People will make longer webms at the same quality
2. People will make higher quality webms at the same length
That's it.
>>439067
>It would be the same amount of bandwidth, which in total would usually be 3-4 MB in total.
That isn't fully how it works. For the users who would try to max out everything then sure nothing changes except better quality, but for the average person making small snippets then, if anything, the file sizes will shrink helping bandwidth on the server.
I don't really see the downside to it unless you want bring up encoding times, but then if that is a problem for some people they can still encode in VP8 as the fallback.