Re: [rtcweb] Platforms that support H264 (was: Congratuiations on the Cisco announcement - but we still prefer VP8)

tim panton <tim@phonefromhere.com> Sat, 02 November 2013 16:56 UTC

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On 2 Nov 2013, at 15:02, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 November 2013 07:37, cowwoc <cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
>>    I can't think of a single platform that supports real-time H.264
>> encoding/decoding natively today.
> 
> That's a very strange way to put the question.
> 
> Let me put another spin on it, and please excuse the example...
> 
> Skype runs on more platforms than you might think.  Those platforms
> can all support H.264 to the extent that Skype requires.

Martin, can I ask you to talk with your Skype engineering team and check up on 
the exact way that works on iOS. Last time I looked, it seemed you couldn’t use the 
Apple supplied (hardware accelerated) h264 library for realtime encode/decode and
it wasn’t at all clear to me that the hardware encoder licence covered any soft implementation of h264 we
added.

I’d like to caveat that:
 1) it was a while ago. 2) I’m not a lawyer. 3) it was a thought experiment.
So it would be interesting to get a current view from the trenches.

T.