YouTube actually supports H.265 and VP9 ingest, depending on the streaming proto...

ndiddy · 2026-07-02T01:48:45 1782956925

Nice, glad some sites are finally trying to move forward. It looks like they only support H.265 video with AAC audio, so this should still be helpful for people who are streaming H.265. https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/live/guides/hls-ing...

davidgerard · 2026-07-02T10:38:28 1782988708

yeah I use vp9 with opus for uploads by choice, it's great!

YouTube serves vp9 but it always re-encodes my videos as AV1. Annoying.

(I would upload as AV1 but the encoder is slooooooooow.)

nwallin · 2026-07-02T12:49:53 1782996593

> (I would upload as AV1 but the encoder is slooooooooow.)

If you're using libaom, try switching to libsvtav1. It's still slow, but it's slooow instead of slooooooooow.