“This new format bumps everybody one notch closer to our goal of instant, high-quality, buffer-free videos.”<\/p>\n
“That means that if your Internet connection used to only play up to 480p without buffering on YouTube, it can now play silky smooth 720p with VP9.”<\/p>\n
“VP9 also has benefits for people with limited bandwidth or expensive data plans.”<\/p>\n
“By cutting bitrates in as much as half, it dramatically increases the set of users that can watch 360p quality video without increased rebuffering or cost.”<\/p>\n
The problem is that now, over a year and a half later, the codec still isn’t widely publicised or used.<\/p>\n
Part of the reasoning behind this\u00a0is that not every video can be watched in VP9 – it’s typically been reserved for videos with several thousand viewers.<\/p>\n
It’s also still not available to everyone – according to YouTube <\/a><\/strong>the VP9 extension is still technically only available in the Chrome web browser, Android devices like the Samsung Galaxy S6, and some TVs and consoles.<\/p>\n So provided the video falls into this group and you have the correct device, you should automatically be watching videos in the new codec.<\/p>\n Alternatively you can enable the codec manually <\/a><\/strong>in your browser, by following these steps:<\/p>\n You can check out the differences for yourself below:<\/p>\n H.264 Encoding<\/strong><\/p>\n VP9 Encoding<\/strong><\/p>\n Combined Comparison:<\/strong><\/p>\n In April 2015, YouTube introduced a serious change to the way it encoded its videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":92509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13980,1638,22385,23487,1713],"class_list":["post-112247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bandwidth","tag-google","tag-look","tag-vp9","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112329,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112247\/revisions\/112329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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