Announcing VP9 (And Opus and Ogg and Vorbis) support coming to Microsoft Edge

[xiphmont]

Oh look, an official announcement: http://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/09/08/announcing-vp9-support-coming-to-microsoft-edge/

Called it!

In any case, welcome to the party Microsoft. Feel free to help yourself to the open bar. :-)

(And, to be fair, this isn't as fantastically unlikely as some pundits have been saying. After all, MS does own an IP stake in Opus).

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Well, not necessarily Opus
>It will be specifically targeted to meet the needs of websites that use VP9 to deliver video in combination with MP4/AAC or other audio codecs already supported by Microsoft.
But they seem to consider it.

Opus

[(Anonymous)]

Microsoft already supports Opus in their ORTC implementation in Edge so you'd think it wouldn't be too big a step for them to also support it in the video and audio tags.

Re: Opus

[ivan privaci (from livejournal.com)]

"Opus is on the backlog with high priority" (https://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/opusaudiocodec/).

Microsoft explicitly intends to add opus support (and vorbis, at a lower priority).

Now we just need to get then to implement ogg containers so we can actually play .opus files in <audio> tags...