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The faster Flash performance won't be much of a selling point now.


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


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


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




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