I would reckon so! Leaving browsers to hang for a long time would not be a good experience and they already suck up plenty of memory. It already takes a while when you record a video to encode it and produce it ready to play back. As you said, as hardware encoding becomes available it might become better and browsers might well be able to hand off to that hardware to process.
That's why the MediaRecorder.isTypeSupported method exists. So we can choose the best possible for our users and then fallback.
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I would reckon so! Leaving browsers to hang for a long time would not be a good experience and they already suck up plenty of memory. It already takes a while when you record a video to encode it and produce it ready to play back. As you said, as hardware encoding becomes available it might become better and browsers might well be able to hand off to that hardware to process.
That's why the
MediaRecorder.isTypeSupportedmethod exists. So we can choose the best possible for our users and then fallback.