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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (12 children)

They could, probably. My guess is, that it’s either a limitation of resources, the issue of licensing fees or Google‘s significant financial influence on Mozilla forcing them to make a worse browser than they potentially could. Similar to how Firefox does not support HDR (although, to my knowledge, there’s no licensing involved there).

The biggest problem most people have with Mozilla is said influence by Google, making them not truly independent.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Google probably is putting pressure on Mozilla, but if the options are licensed HECV or open royalty-free AV1, the choice is pretty clear for a FOSS project.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Yes but: HEVC is the standard for UHD content for now, until AV1 gets much broader adoption. And judging from how long HEVC took to be as broadly available as h.264, it’ll still take a while for AV1 to be viable for most applications.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    The good news is no streaming service even supports UHD in browers (except Netflix on Edge?) because of DRM. So I don’t see the value.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    My Jellyfin server does and on Firefox it needs to transcode to h.264

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