Re: [rtcweb] Discussion on codec choices from a developer who doesn't come to IETF

Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com> Tue, 08 May 2012 21:40 UTC

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On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:35 AM, DRAGE, Keith (Keith)
<keith.drage@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> Most mobile devices (at least those on 3GPP standards) trying to do anything other than RTCWEB with their screens and cameras will need to support H.264 anyway.
>

My faulty memory is that the availability of hardware acceleration for
certain audio codecs used to be restricted and that VoIP clients on
3GPP devices had no access to them.  Is that situation cleared up?
Can any installed application now access hardware accelerated codec
support?

regards,

Ted