Open Bug 1793635 Opened 3 years ago Updated 12 days ago

Google meet uses VP8 with Firefox instead of VP9

Categories

(Core :: WebRTC: Audio/Video, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
WebRTC: Audio/Video
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: jrmuizel, Unassigned)

References

Details

In a Chrome to Chrome call Google Meet uses VP9 however in a Chrome to Firefox call Google Meet uses VP8.

We should figure out why.

VP9 decoding is much more likely to be hardware accelerated. So all things being equal, that seems like a reason to prefer it.

Depends on: 1396922
Severity: -- → S3
Priority: -- → P2

I am still seeing this today with Firefox 135; particularly worrying given that Firefox reports via about:support that vp9 has hardware support but vp8 does not, so any Google Meet video calls absolutely melt my CPU.

Priority: P2 → P3

Still seems happening, is not there any way to force vp9 usage?

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