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An AV codec isn't a weapon to lock developers into your platform while wasting millions of dollars and thousands of man hours on pointless api ports. There are
by zanny 9y ago
An AV codec isn't a weapon to lock developers into your platform while wasting millions of dollars and thousands of man hours on pointless api ports. There are too many implementations of encoders / decoders for the various formats lying around to get away with that. Its not like they didn't try with Quicktime in the past (ish? .mov was just a crippled .mp4), but that never really made them any money I don't think.
- CharlesW 9y ago> .mov was just a crippled .mp4 That's backwards — Apple contributed the Movie file format as the basis of the MPEG-4 file format.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14#History_of_MP4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14#History_of_MP4
- ComputerGuru 9y agomov significantly predated MP4