What does HackerNews think of ogv.js?

Chrome Removing Theora Support | Oct 2023

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You might find this helpful: https://github.com/brion/ogv.js

From the FF announcement linked elsewhere in these comments.

"MP3 is dead" missed the real, much better story (2017) | Oct 2023

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Yeah, that's what Wikipedia do using this https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/

Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren't based on WebKit | Feb 2023

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I've been told this at least three times now on HN over the years (pretty soon I'm going to start keeping a list of URLs so people know I'm not exaggerating.) Every single time it turns out that it isn't actually true.

It was added to desktop Safari. iOS Safari supports VP9 only in WebRTC. It may have changed, but I can't find any evidence that it has.

If you see it working somewhere, it is almost definitely using the polyfill[1].

[1]: https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/

Anti-innovative effects of Apple's prohibition of alternative browser engines | Jun 2022

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I believe Wikipedia has resorted to polyfilling it using this:

https://github.com/brion/ogv.js

That's great and all, but it has limitations, and obviously, is ludicrously less efficient than it should be.

WebCodecs is a flexible web API for encoding and decoding audio and video | Mar 2021

This is great and overdue. Hopefully all major browsers will add some support for open source/royalty free codecs.

Emscripten/WebAssembly actually worked rather well with audio (OPUS is just awesome) but when it comes to video it's just unfeasible, especially if you are looking at doing low latency streaming. That said, I cannot fail to mention the incredible effort done by ogv.js [1] to make a/v decoding possible almost anywhere.

Looking forward to experiment with this new API.

[1] https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/