Comment by jaffathecake

2 days ago

What are you talking about? Video formats have a whole mad type parameter for this stuff https://jakearchibald.com/2022/html-codecs-parameter-for-av1...

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shmerl  2 days ago

It's not mandatory, and it would work without using it. The whole point is for forward compatibility support effect for sites which are very slow introducing these kind of changes.

  • jaffathecake  2 days ago

    It's not mandatory. But if you don't use it, the browser may select a source it cannot play.

    • shmerl  2 days ago

      Possibly, but as above, a much slower problem to solve is not in the browser support, but in sites support. Browsers in practice move way faster.