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They don't have HW support for VP8 - This makes a big difference in battery life, so I can understand why they don't support it. From https://webkit.org/blog/8
by e1ven 8y ago
They don't have HW support for VP8 - This makes a big difference in battery life, so I can understand why they don't support it.
From https://webkit.org/blog/8672/on-the-road-to-webrtc-1-0-including-vp8/ https://webkit.org/blog/8672/on-the-road-to-webrtc-1-0-inclu...
"We found that, on an iPhone 7 Plus in laboratory conditions, the use of H.264 on a 720p video call increases the battery life by up to an hour compared to VP8."
That said, they make their own chips. They could certainly add it to the iPhone n+1 if they were so inclined.
- gcb0 8y agoand while they don't update chips, they could just allow the user to give their batteries to see the content if they choose to. So condescending to limit user agency like that.
- RandallBrown 8y ago99.9% of users wouldn't know why their phone battery is dying more quickly. They'd just complain that the latest update (or whatever) made their phone worse. I guess they could have some sort of pop up saying "The website you're visiting is using a technology that uses more power on your phone" but that seems like a pretty crappy compromise.
- gcb0 8y agoeveryone feels their phone getting hot when the battery has a high drain for long and will quickly associate to a site. thinking users are dumb is just gate keeping by oh-so-clever-engineers
- tpush 8y agoIntel CPUs have hardware decoding support for VP8 since Broadwell, but Apple's Macs don't take advantage of that. So it seems Apple has more reasons not to support the (Google backed) codec apart from hardware decoding support.