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Google is heavily pushing VP8, which is supposedly royalty free. I'd be incredibly impressed if Apple could make a hardware decoder/encoder for HEVC for their n
by Jabbles 14y ago
Google is heavily pushing VP8, which is supposedly royalty free. I'd be incredibly impressed if Apple could make a hardware decoder/encoder for HEVC for their next iPhone (or whichever one comes after the standard is finalised), but we won't know until then :)
http://www.webmproject.org/tools/vp8-sdk/ http://www.webmproject.org/tools/vp8-sdk/
- mtgx 14y agoSamsung's Exynos 5 Dual chip supports hardware decoding for VP8, and it should land in some phone and tablet by the end of the year.
- podperson 14y agoIt will be interesting to see what happens with VP8/WebM. Really it looks like Google tried to stymie Apple (which committed itself to H264) first by trying to back Adobe/Flash and then VP8 (and announcing that H264 support would be dropped from Chrome, which AFAIK it hasn't been on any platform). Thus far I don't see VP8 achieving much and Google may just end up sticking with MPEG standards.
- taligent 14y agoGoogle is a few years too late with VP8. It would have had an opportunity to take off when H.264 was in its infancy. But now there is simply no use for it.
- taligent 14y agoIIRC the PowerVR GPU inside all the iOS devices already support hardware VP8 encoding/decoding. Apple just has no inclination to support it. And why would they ? VP8 is significantly worse than H.264 in every important way (quality, compatibility, popularity). Not to mention that Apple is on a very anti-Google path right now.