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yjm on Nov 17, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: VP8 and H.264 to both become mandatory for WebRTC

For the record VP8 sucks for anyone who needs to support it because it eats up to 7 times more resources than h264 does for transcoding.

gcp on Nov 17, 2014 [–]

Someone is confusing (crappy) implementations with standards.

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