I was watching a lot of E3 stuff this year on YouTube and noticed that there
seem to be less and less WebM encoded streams in favor of H.264 as time goes
on. Even if they do offer the WebM stream, they seem to be maxed out at 360p
or 480p while H.264 gets 720p, 1080p, and 4k.
The latest Chrome and Firefox support both the VP9 and Opus codecs in the
WebM container, but they are rarely used. I have a Greasemonkey script to
download files and even though WebM is an option to download, the HTML5
player keeps trying to serve me H.264 or bug for the Flash plugin.
Has anyone else noticed this? WebM was already a second class citizen on
YouTube (and the web in general), but the situation seems to worsen as time
goes on. Is Google giving up?
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