ogv.js VS Broadway

Yeah, that's what they do using this https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/

I've been told this at least three times now on HN over the years (pretty soon I'm going to start keeping a list of URLs so people know I'm not exaggerating.) Every single time it turns out that it isn't actually true.

It was added to desktop Safari. iOS Safari supports VP9 only in WebRTC. It may have changed, but I can't find any evidence that it has.

If you see it working somewhere, it is almost definitely using the polyfill[1].

[1]: https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/

I found a library "ogv.js" that says it decodes .ogg/.webm using WebAssembly, and this demo plays on my iPhone SE3 in Safari.

I believe Wikipedia has resorted to polyfilling it using this:

https://github.com/brion/ogv.js

That's great and all, but it has limitations, and obviously, is ludicrously less efficient than it should be.

We already have JS/WebGL video decoders (e.g: Broadway.js, OGOV.js). Much of the earlier video playback/acceleration work was getting it accelerated on GPUs-- using DirectX, OpenGL, or other GPU programming standards.

This is great and overdue. Hopefully all major browsers will add some support for open source/royalty free codecs.

Emscripten/WebAssembly actually worked rather well with audio (OPUS is just awesome) but when it comes to video it's just unfeasible, especially if you are looking at doing low latency streaming. That said, I cannot fail to mention the incredible effort done by ogv.js [1] to make a/v decoding possible almost anywhere.

Looking forward to experiment with this new API.

[1] https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/

We already have JS/WebGL video decoders (e.g: Broadway.js, OGOV.js). Much of the earlier video playback/acceleration work was getting it accelerated on GPUs-- using DirectX, OpenGL, or other GPU programming standards.