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Can you please elaborate a bit more on the video decoding? It's sounds interesting. I have played all kinds of formats including mkv in VLC on iOS. What could b
by tompazourek 5y ago
Can you please elaborate a bit more on the video decoding? It's sounds interesting. I have played all kinds of formats including mkv in VLC on iOS. What could be improved in that area?
- ragazzina 5y agoHow do you watch webms on iOS/ipadOS?
- jbk 5y agoVLC on iOS
- Sunspark 5y agoOn the newest iPhone 13 for example these are the video formats supported: "Video formats supported: HEVC, H.264, MPEG‑4 Part 2, and Motion JPEG" If your video is not one of these formats, you're going to be using software decoding which will be done on the CPU and will drain battery more as a consequence. So that means no .MKV decoding in hardware.
- extra88 5y ago.mkv is a container format, not a video codec. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska
- Sunspark 5y agoStill not going to be decoded in hardware on iOS.
- realityking 5y agoYou‘re spreading FUD. iOS (and other Apple platforms) had low level APIs to decode videos on hardware for years. Of course the video codec needs to be supported (AFAIK right now just H.264 and HEVC) but the container format doesn‘t matter, you just need to unpack it yourself. Here‘s a - 6 year old - guide on how to set it up: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29525000/how-to-use-videotoolbox-to-decompress-h-264-video-stream https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29525000/how-to-use-vide...