[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 173141] No VP8/VP9 Video Codec Support in WebRTC

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173141

--- Comment #8 from PhistucK <phistuck at chromium.org> ---
(In reply to PhistucK from comment #7)
> > But there is in fact one reason why we would prefer having VP8 support in
> > Safari, and that is that the opposing (non-browser) client that is
> > participating in WebRTC calls already uses the HW H264 encoder to encode a
> > live video stream. This, in turn, means that the WebRTC H264 stream has to
> > be encoded in software which we found to provide worse results compared to
> > VP8 in both CPU load and quality.
> 
> Sorry, either you mistyped H.264 instead of VP8 somewhere here, or you
> comment does not make a lot of sense to me. Perhaps you meant "HW H264" to
> be "HW VP8"?

Oh, or you meant that the browser will encode H.264 through software while the non-browser will encode it through hardware?

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