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Okay, so what differentiates a Live Photo from a jpg&webm combo? It does have a proprietary format or it is saved as a zip?
by la_oveja 9y ago
Okay, so what differentiates a Live Photo from a jpg&webm combo? It does have a proprietary format or it is saved as a zip?
- pluma 9y agoAh, you see, a HTML5 video tag with a webm and `poster` image doesn't have the blurry transition when switching between the still image and the video as well as when looping the video. Also of course iOS doesn't support WebM and HTML5 video on iOS is not intended to be used for anything other than full-screen videos because Apple knows best and actually supporting HTML5 media properly would ruin performance (as would supporting WebM without the same optimisations Apple made for H.264). Also of course Live Photos are totally different because they're from Apple, not based on any of those cruddy and boring "open standards". -- But to be serious for a moment: the main difference is that iOS treats them as a thing (unlike a plain "video plus image" combo), so the entire user experience surrounding them is different from recording to sharing them. And technically the still image is higher res whereas the video is lower res (with video+image the image is generally a still frame so res tends to be the same).