VP9/WebM + YouTube = F-Zero GX no longer looks like utter crap

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

(05-16-2014, 12:56 PM)MaJoR Wrote: VP9 can't do that on any system, to my knowledge anyway.

The point is that h.265 can't do that either, therefore the complexity of a codec is very important in the first few years if you're looking to displace the incumbent.. Heck even h.264 was added to flash only in 2007 - that was the very same year that only the first iphone was released, and h.264 was 4 years old at that point.

I'd also like to point out that my sister's 2006 laptop, my father's 2007 laptop, and my family's 2008 netbook all lack h.264 hardware decoding, and the CPU in my sister's laptop (Core Duo T2050) can just play 720p 30fps h.264, and sometimes it'll even have a frame-drop or two if its played through flash rather than a dedicated media player.