Re: [rtcweb] Proposed Video Selection Process

Jack Moffitt <jack@metajack.im> Thu, 21 November 2013 22:42 UTC

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> The RFC series turned to success >40y ago by documenting running code and
> best practices.

All the running code for WebRTC is VP8.

Not claiming this is the best source, but the shipping implementations
of VP8 WebRTC represent ~60% of all desktop browsers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

This doesn't include mobile (where market share is still significant
but not as high), but the two shipping browsers have no problem with
VP8 even though they ship mobile browsers too.

Running code with majority market share doesn't seem to count for much.

jack.