> ffvp9 is an incredibly awesome decoder that outperforms all other decoders.
Not to take away from the hard work which has gone into ffvp9 but that should be “all other open-source decoders” without benchmarks comparing it against the proprietary implementations which most people actually use. ffvp9 be great but still the wrong choice if someone has a hardware/GPU-accelerated H.265 codec in their OS and would prefer longer battery life to use of free software.
Firefox added support for Intel's VP9 hardware decoder, but had to disable it because of Intel bugs and hardware performance was often worse the available software decoders!
Not to take away from the hard work which has gone into ffvp9 but that should be “all other open-source decoders” without benchmarks comparing it against the proprietary implementations which most people actually use. ffvp9 be great but still the wrong choice if someone has a hardware/GPU-accelerated H.265 codec in their OS and would prefer longer battery life to use of free software.