H.264 is supported in WebRTC from Chrome 50

Would this mean that you can encode the Chrome windows itself and send it off over the network to be decoded by, well, anything that decodes H.264, possibly another Chrome window's decoder?

I'm surprised I have not come across OpenH264. Why is Cisco eager to pony up the license fees for users of their H264 codec?

interesting that there&#x27;s an encoder built in as well.<p>wonder if they will start offloading youtube video compression onto client machines pre-upload.

How big of a deal is this? Is there any new use-case that can be gained by this tech?

What kind of computer would one need to encode H.264 1080p in real time?<p>(I assume it&#x27;s all done on the CPU, not the GPU)

And HEVC licensing is still a bag of hurt.

Wake me up with h.265

I&#x27;m excited for this simply because it means you can have a fully client side in browser youtube downloader. With things like youtube-dl, you need ffmpeg to combine the higher bitrate streams if you&#x27;re downloading anything 1080p and above. Most downloaders offload to a server to handle this, but it always bugged me when I had to do that.