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Why the new Edge does not support HEVC or HEIC content from websites ?
HotCakeX, MELERIX and Rohit Yadav -- to give you all an update: our media team is actively investigating this right now. Thank you again for letting us know about this, it was helpful! We'll let you know if/when there are more updates.
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
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?
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.
- ShinraCorp
Microsoft
To 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)
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.
