Even though AV1 codec is still considered experimental, you can already leverage its high-quality, low-bitrate features for a sizable chunk for your web audience (users with current versions of Chrome and Firefox). Of course, you would not want to leave users for other browsers hanging, but the attributes for <video><\/code> and <source><\/code> tags make implementing this logic easy, and in pure HTML, you don\u2019t need to go at length to detect user agents with JavaScript.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThat doesn’t even mention HLS, but I suppose that’s because HSL is a streaming protocol, which still needs to stream in some sort of format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TIL about the HLS video format: HLS stands for HTTP Live Streaming. It\u2019s an adaptive bitrate streaming protocol developed by Apple. One of those sentences to casually drop at any party. \u00c4h. Back on track: HLS allows you to specify a playlist with multiple video sources in different resolutions. Based on available bandwidth these video […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":283872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[1613,1614,672],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/css-tricks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1_x4SPcU16wKczk9HBd_mGKw.png?fit=2000%2C1050&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":305874,"url":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/cloudinary-studio\/","url_meta":{"origin":283779,"position":0},"title":"Cloudinary Studio","date":"April 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I knew that Cloudinary worked with video as well as images but, the other day, I was curious if Cloudinary offered a video player embed just like other video hosts do (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, etc). Like an