Re: [rtcweb] There are no legacy WebRTC devices (Was: Comment on Straw Poll replies)

[Ron <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 09:15:28AM -0500, cowwoc wrote:
> I stand corrected:
> http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
> 
> Both H.264 and VP8 encoder/decoders are supported. Thanks for catching that.
> 
> I'm still curious if anyone has seen a public API for hardware
> encoding/decoding of video outside of Android...

The more interesting question to me would be if someone could give us an
estimate of what proportion of Android devices actually have either ASIC
hardware support for both of these, or sufficiently capable CPUs to do
them in software?

If access to both of these is guaranteed on that platform, then it almost
doesn't matter what the others are doing, if we choose VP8 then we have
support on something like 80% of the mobile device market.[1]

The others will either follow along soon enough, or ...  burn their
platforms I guess.[2]

What am I missing that nobody has pointed this out for us already?

  Cheers,
  Ron


[1]  And most (or all?) of the rest have no support for using the onboard
     acceleration for either case anyway.

[2]  Unless they get a belated interest in H.261 maybe.