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Firefox 137 To Support HEVC/H.265 Video Playback On Linux With VA-API (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago

I definitely think this was a good move. Proprietary video codecs are silly and I'm glad VP9 and AV1 have been so widely adopted. I do wish more services used them instead of h.264 but at least it's something.