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nikcub on Nov 9, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nvidia introduces Tegra 3 five-core CPU

Funny - first thing I thought as well. But the video decoder is just h.264 up to high profile, so it should, in theory, work for html5 video as well

nextparadigms on Nov 9, 2011 [–]

I would've thought chip makers would decode WebM, too, by now. Google won't stay on h.264 forever.

vetinari on Nov 9, 2011 | [–]

They do, Tegra 2, 3 and OMAP4 decode VP8 in hardware.

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