FF137 Relnote: HVEC support #38436
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| @@ -1049,7 +1049,14 @@ HEVC is a proprietary format and is covered by a number of patents. Licensing is | |||
| <a href="https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nmzlz57r3t7">HEVC video extensions from the Microsoft Store</a> | |||
| is installed, and has the same support status as Chrome on other platforms. Edge (Legacy) only supports HEVC for devices with a hardware decoder. | |||
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| <p>Firefox 120 initially supported HEVC decoding in Nightly only. Support was enabled by default in Firefox 134 on Windows, Windows and macOS in Firefox 136, and Windows, macOS, and Linux in Firefox 137. HEVC support is provided only on devices with hardware support (the range is the same as Edge).</p> | |||
| <p>Firefox enables HEVC on: | |||
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@chrisdavidmills FYI, this updates the information added in #38395.
- We don't care about nightly builds once things are in release.
- The support story is a little more complex than captured previously. This is precise, and comes from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1950032#c8
- One thing to note is that you only pay for the SW extension on Windows. You don't pay if you have HW support, and in Linux you get support from the open source ffmpeg codec - which might have patents, but is in the system so "not an FF problem".
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* FF137 Relnote: HVEC support * Update files/en-us/mozilla/firefox/releases/137/index.md Co-authored-by: Brian Smith <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Brian Smith <[email protected]>
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FF137 adds HVEC support for Android and Linux in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1950032
This adds a release note. It also adds an update to the web video codec guide to update the information provided in #38395