Nice, but ... webm needs to get hardware support (ie so it can be played from sm...

maggit · on Aug 25, 2013

Some information about WebM/VP8 hardware support: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM#Hardware

Notably, "Nvidia is supporting VP8 and provides both hardware decoding and encoding in the Tegra 4 chipset."

mda · on Aug 25, 2013

Most of the newer Arm chips have hardware WebM support. http://wiki.webmproject.org/hardware/arm-socs .

samspenc · on Aug 26, 2013

Just curious: is it possible for the same hardware to support both WebM and H.264?

devx · on Aug 25, 2013

Most of the main chip makers seem to have agreed to support it [1], but it's taking too much time to bring it to their chips. For example in 2014 I'm not going to care about wide VP8 support anymore. In 2014 I want to already see wide support for VP9, since VP9 is the next-gen codec.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM#Hardware