Google's VP9 video codec -- its more efficient replacement for H.264 -- powered 25 billion hours of video streaming on YouTube in the last 12 months, the company announced today.
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Here is one more nail in Flash's coffin: starting today, YouTube defaults to using HTML5 video on all modern browsers, including Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and the beta versions of Firefox.
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Google's <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9">VP9 video codec</a> is getting a major boost today. While <a target="_blank" href="http://gigaom.com/2013/12/09/firefox-gets-support