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> Opus is supported in all major webbrowsers and natively in modern Android systems. I'd call that widely supported. http://caniuse.com/#feat=opus http://caniu
by Yaggo 9y ago
> Opus is supported in all major webbrowsers and natively in modern Android systems. I'd call that widely supported.
http://caniuse.com/#feat=opus http://caniuse.com/#feat=opus
Not supported in Safari. I guess the reason is that iOS devices don't have hardware encoder for it and Apple doesn't want to compromise battery life (maybe marginal issue with audio, but big issue with webm).
- jhasse 9y ago> I guess the reason is that iOS devices don't have hardware encoder for it and Apple doesn't want to compromise battery life (maybe marginal issue with audio, but big issue with webm). I rather think that Apple doesn't like the idea of royalty-free codecs which would make it easier for free operation systems to support multimedia on the web. AAC helps to keep you locked into macOS or Windows, because it works out-of-the-box there (in contrast to Linux distributions like Fedora).
- brainfire 9y agoOn the other hand, the only audio format I'm aware of Apple inventing in the last 20 years is royalty-free and available under the Apache license. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless
- jhasse 9y agoIt wasn't royalty-free from the beginning, in contrast to FLAC. Guess which browsers don't support FLAC: http://caniuse.com/#search=flac http://caniuse.com/#search=flac