Comment on Why Mozilla will support H.264 on OS that comes with itparentComments−FrankBooth14yTranscoding is still expensive for video, but not for audio. There's certainly some cost to transcoding all the world's MP3s, but given that a single modern CPU can encode and decode audio at 100-500x realtime, it's fairly small.
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Transcoding is still expensive for video, but not for audio. There's certainly some cost to transcoding all the world's MP3s, but given that a single modern CPU can encode and decode audio at 100-500x realtime, it's fairly small.