Re: [rtcweb] Stephan Wenger's choices

[Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Ron <[e-mail]> wrote:
> None of which helps people who have a device they bought in the last year
> which could perfectly do multiple streams of H.261 in real time, but has
> no hope at all of keeping up with even one stream of a higher complexity
> codec.  Even if they have a true colour retina display available to them.

I don't see this as the tragedy you seem to. And I would note that
FirefoxOS actually runs on devices that are at least potentially in
this class, so it's not because it's a situation I don't have to deal with.


> We can joke about absurdities, but I'm completely serious about the real
> benefits that a low-complexity, tiny-footprint, completely accessible
> codec would have as the MTI.

Yes, I realize you're serious. But it turns out that there is a difference
between seriously believing something and actually convincing
people.

So far you have yet to convince me, at least, that it's better
for users to have an MTI bad codec on every device than to have
an MTI good codec on most devices and no video on really low-end
devices.

-Ekr