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Is the major advantage of ORBX.js is that it can be decoded by leveraging webGL? isn't that also possible with VP8/H.264?
by shacharz 13y ago
Is the major advantage of ORBX.js is that it can be decoded by leveraging webGL? isn't that also possible with VP8/H.264?
- jfb 13y agoIf you're stuck using a software decoder, I guess it's cool that you can use WebGL?
- KaiserPro 13y agoh.264 yes. VP8 not so much.
- azakai 13y agoExperiments with decoding of H.264 in JS+WebGL were done in the Broadway project, and while (as mentioned in the article) reasonable frame rates in JS alone were achieved, WebGL was not a huge benefit. The problem is that H.264 was not designed to run in a massively parallel manner like GPUs expect. There is too much stuff that is serial, so you must run that on the CPU. But a new codec like ORBX.js however can be designed to run efficiently in WebGL, that is what is interesting here.