Google Says YouTube Users Watched 25 Billion Hours Of VP9 Video In The Last Year

 Google’s VP9 video codec — its more efficient replacement for H.264 — powered 25 billion hours of video streaming on YouTube in the last 12 months, the company announced today. Google argues that VP9, which is the default codec for YouTube’s HTML5 video player now, enables users with limited bandwidth to watch higher quality video than before without suffering from… Read More