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		dharma1 on Sept 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts Perhaps this is why: http://www.androidcentral.com/google-moves-hangouts-vp8-offe... Instead of hardware accelerated h264 (almost all chipsets have hardware decoding/encoding of h264), they use their own VP8/9 - which is decoding/encoding on CPU Also the reason why Google Glass can't do Hangouts - not powerful enough for software encoding. They should just use h264.

jefftk on Sept 11, 2014 [–]

patents

dharma1 on Sept 11, 2014 | [–]

is it that costly really? rest of the world is using h264 pretty much everywhere

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