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There was a time when browsers did not have built-in media players.

Seems like ffmpeg libraries, developed outside of the web browser, support nearly all video formats a user could encounter on the internet.

Also, the part of the statement that reads "your new browser won't work with most internet video" is intriguing.

Can we define "most internet video" as Amazon Video, BBC, Hulu, Netflix and Spotify? (Widevine users listed on its Wikipedia page)

Seems like there is much, much more video on the internet that does not come from those sources.



| Can we define "most internet video" as Amazon Video, BBC, Hulu, Netflix and Spotify?

Maybe you could in terms of unique videos, but in terms of the volume of watched video, not at all. Netflix itself is responsible for something in the range of 15% of the worlds bandwidth usage.

Either way, it not going to win an end users to have something like that.


Probably depends how you define most: by number of videos or bandwidth.




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