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		alwayslikethis on Oct 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google added HEVC support in Chrome For the record, it seems like more and more devices are supporting Opus for general use cases. It seems to be the audio codec end game - at 16kbps it sounds as good to me as 64kbps mp3

mustache_kimono on Oct 26, 2022 [–]

> For the record, it seems like more and more devices are supporting Opus for general use cases

Yes, exactly and AFAIK it's because Chrome/Google/YouTube has recently supported Opus to the exclusion of these proprietary formats for higher quality (read HEVC level) video.

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