<story><title>VP9: Faster, better, buffer-free YouTube videos</title><url>http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2015/04/vp9-faster-better-buffer-free-youtube.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoapSeller</author><text>The missing phrase in the post is &amp;quot;hardware acceleration&amp;quot;, which is is completely broken for VP8&amp;#x2F;9(In Firefox &amp;amp; Chrome,  IE&amp;amp;Safari doesn&amp;#x27;t support either).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m using an extension[0] to force youtube to serve me with h264 in order to be able to watch 4K videos &amp;amp; maintain reasonable battery life.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;erkserkserks&amp;#x2F;h264ify&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;erkserkserks&amp;#x2F;h264ify&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nfriedly</author><text>Yea, but the flip side of that is that hardware acceleration is a chicken-and-egg problem: Google&amp;#x27;s work here makes it more likely that we&amp;#x27;ll get hardware acceleration working in the future because there will now be a good reason to do it.&lt;p&gt;(They do mention &amp;quot;More than 20 device partners across the industry are launching products in 2015 and beyond using VP9.&amp;quot;, so perhaps some of those will feature working hardware acceleration.)</text></comment>
<story><title>VP9: Faster, better, buffer-free YouTube videos</title><url>http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2015/04/vp9-faster-better-buffer-free-youtube.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoapSeller</author><text>The missing phrase in the post is &amp;quot;hardware acceleration&amp;quot;, which is is completely broken for VP8&amp;#x2F;9(In Firefox &amp;amp; Chrome,  IE&amp;amp;Safari doesn&amp;#x27;t support either).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m using an extension[0] to force youtube to serve me with h264 in order to be able to watch 4K videos &amp;amp; maintain reasonable battery life.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;erkserkserks&amp;#x2F;h264ify&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;erkserkserks&amp;#x2F;h264ify&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vegardx</author><text>This is amazing! Finally I&amp;#x27;m able to watch YouTube without my Macbook initiating a take off sequence when something is available in resolutions over 1080p.&lt;p&gt;On OSX there is a noticeable difference in performance of video playback in Safari and Chrome, and I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure it&amp;#x27;s all down to hardware accelerated decoding.</text></comment>