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That makes two of us, so I rooted out an official source: https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=QA/H264-AAC-MP3_support&diff=526346&oldid=prev https:/
by slickninja1 13y ago
That makes two of us, so I rooted out an official source:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=QA/H264-AAC-MP3_support&diff=526346&oldid=prev https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=QA/H264-AAC-MP3_sup...
Looks like the blog is incorrect.
I'm curious if part of the H264 move has anything to do with FireFox OS and the plethora of mobile chipsets with hardware acceleration.
- shmerl 13y agoYes it does. Mozilla couldn't avoid using H.264 in Firefox OS because VPx hardware decoding isn't widespread yet (though it catches up in the newest SoCs). But it uses the capability of the underlying system. I don't think Mozilla licenses anything from MPEG-LA.
- vetinari 13y agoNewest SoCs as in we are already on second generation with support? OMAP4 and Tegra2 supported it years back. Today, almost all SoCs support it, from Exynos to Rockchip. Notable SoCs that do not support VP8 are Apple's Ax. Not that it is a surprise.
- shmerl 13y agoAvailability in SoCs is paired by actual deployment of those SoCs to end user devices. The majority of currently available end user devices don't have hardware VP8 decoding yet. As time goes by and newer SoCs push out older ones this will improve, but we aren't there yet.