Re: [rtcweb] Platforms that support H264

[cowwoc <[e-mail]>]

     I have no idea what the future will hold, but I know that as of 
today H.264 does not seem to enjoy much stronger platform support than 
VP8 (with respect to real-time encoding/decoding support).

Gili

On 02/11/2013 6:43 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Emil Ivov <[e-mail] 
> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
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>     I'd encourage you to read back.
>
>     This part of the thread started with the claim that most of the
>     time it won't come to downloading Cisco's binary because there is
>     already widespread OS support for H.264 encoding on all OSes
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>
> I assume you're referring to Bernard's comment? If so, I don't think 
> that's actually
> what he said.
>
> In any case, speaking as someone who actually has to deal with this, 
> it's more
> work to maintain more code paths. Thus, I anticipate using Cisco's 
> binary on
> all desktop platforms and only using platform codecs where it offers a 
> significant
> performance advantage, e.g., on mobile.
>
> On a related note: it's a mistake to assume that just because there aren't
> currently good interfaces to the existing H.264 encoding hardware that 
> those
> interfaces will never exist. For instance, the iPhone clearly has 
> real-time
> capable encoding hardware, and Apple certainly could make it available
> if they wanted. That's a much simpler proposition than adding hardware
> where none exists.
>
> -Ekr
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