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I find it funny how people try to declare H265 a winner when it will most likely never land in Chrome or Firefox. Safari has its user base, especially on mobile, sure. But it will never gain any momentum on the web until Chrome supports it. Which will never happen, as Google fully stands behind AV1.



> …it will never gain any momentum on the web until Chrome supports it. Which will never happen…

That's what everyone said about Chrome and H.264, too. As it stands, Chrome has supported H.264 for over a decade.

https://caniuse.com/mpeg4

Happily, Google's ability to simply declare new standards only goes so far.




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