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)]

Great news for free codecs!

BTW it would be nice to have aotuv merged in libvorbis, otherwise its perceived quality is worse than AAC and may not be preferred by everyone.
Opus is obviously the definitive fix, but it's still not supported everywhere.

Thanks!

Aotuv

[(Anonymous)]

Great news for free codecs!

BTW it would be nice to have aotuv merged in libvorbis, otherwise its perceived quality is worse than AAC and may not be preferred by everyone.
Opus is obviously the definitive fix, but it's still not supported everywhere.

Thanks!

[(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...