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Why the new Edge does not support HEVC or HEIC content from websites ?
Rohit Yadav wrote:Deleted I just had one more query related to YouTube, if you could answer that...
In the legacy Edge, if I navigated to youtube.com/testtube , it listed one option to switch codecs between AV1 & VP9 for higher quality playbacks, but in the new Edge, this option is not listed. I don't knwo the behavior for other browsers, since I have only Edge on my PCs. Can you please throw some light on this, if you can?
about other browsers, he is how it looks like on Firefox nightly 75
https://www.youtube.com/account_playback
and on Edge canary 82
I also have a question, is AV1 better than VP9 in terms of video quality? because I know VP9 beats AV1 when it comes to file size in the same resolution and frame rate but not sure about quality.
MicrosoftTo be honest, VP9 is probably going on the side, with AV1 going to be the replacement. Google and Microsoft are part of the Alliance for Open Media that sees the AV1 specifications. So I would rather see support for AV1. As for video quality, with my non-scientific experimentation. I've tested it side by side and it's pretty much the same, it's just better data compression, when streaming it. (Supposedly)
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haha no,
but yeah the quality will stay the same,
btw just curious, which Microsoft product do you work at?
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True, but I'm "lazy" don't want to remux it to MP4 or MOV (if it's even possible) Did you notice a quality difference when remuxing it to MP4?
EDIT: I just realized that Remux is just put it from one container to another... I feel silly asking that question now lol.
- You can record in MKV and then remux it to MP4 quickly to use in video editors, I always do that for my OBS gameplays
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I'm sure MKV will come someday, I do not work for the Edge team so cannot say anything with 100% certainty. I agree that MKV is better than MP4, as for H.265 as mentioned earlier, it's not open-sourced. There is a licensing fee, which sounds like it's very expensive. Especially if what's written is true, it's free for up to 100 000 devices afterwards it's 0.20$ USD. Up to 25$ million dollars per year.
On a side note, it sucks that a few of the popular video editors do not support MKV files input.
Thanks for the response.
how about MKV support? it's open source and better than MP4, can Edge browser support it? even MKV with H.264 would be helpful for me, H.265 would be awesome.