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> Apple could still choose to WebM support. In fact, Imagination Technologies, the people who make the GPUs for the iPhone(and the iPad as well, I think), have
by spiffworks 16y ago
> Apple could still choose to WebM support.
In fact, Imagination Technologies, the people who make the GPUs for the iPhone(and the iPad as well, I think), have already announced full vp8 support in their next-gen hardware decoders, so it would be really easy for Apple to include webm support in the next iPhone or the one after that. And they're safe from any patent threats as well, since they're already MPEG-LA licensees. It will be interesting to see if they do.
- morganw 16y ago> it would be really easy for Apple to include webm support And Matroska support. Building container parsers that are resilient to fuzzing attacks is non-trivial. Can I assume you'd like trick play (ffw, rew, scrub), too?
- kinetik 16y agoContainer parsing: it's not that hard. Besides which, they can use one of the freely licensed existing parsers to solve that problem. Trick play is already implemented. If you have to do major rework of that area to support a new format, you're doing it wrong.