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David Singer <singer@apple.com> Mon, 04 November 2013 14:12 UTC

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On Nov 4, 2013, at 23:02 , cowwoc <cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org> wrote:

> On 04/11/2013 8:51 AM, David Singer wrote:
>> On Nov 3, 2013, at 2:41 , Gili <cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
>> 
>>>     So... the only platform that supports H.264 natively (real-time encoding/decoding) is Windows 8? Any others?
>> The fact that there currently isn't an API is different from whether the platform can do it (in the iOS case).  reverse engineering suggests that FaceTime uses AVC (H.264).
>> 
> 
>    Same difference.

No, it really isn't.  There is a world of difference between implementing something and making an API to it public or available.  Good grief.

> Whether you need to implement a new API or simply expose existing an implementation, it takes months for users to upgrade to this new version and for it to actually work as expected (initial releases tend to be unstable or missing features). Furthermore, there is no guarantee that Apple will release said API anytime soon. For these reasons, I stand by my comment that real-time H.264 support does not exist (for developers outside of Apple).
> 
> Gili

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

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