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Google wants their own protocol to succeed, Mozilla wants a different video codec to succeed[1], Microsoft probably wants to own both. It's very easy to cache H
by ynniv 13y ago
Google wants their own protocol to succeed, Mozilla wants a different video codec to succeed[1], Microsoft probably wants to own both. It's very easy to cache HLS, which makes distributing high definition to a large number of people much cheaper. Is Apple supposed to spend more money on lower quality steaming just because their competitors don't want to play nicely?
VLC is capable of playing HLS if you can get it the correct URL. Some other browsers can play it, but the web has an unfortunately long history of browser detection.
[1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577084 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577084]
- arrrg 13y agoI don’t think this is about wanting protocols to succeed, or at least not primarily. Every iOS or OS X device Apple sells (so pretty much any of their products) can play this. No need to install anything. Why should Apple do any special extra work to make it work elsewhere without a bit of hassle? Also, it’s just a fucking PR event. Why do people want to watch it? That’s just weird.
- msujaws 13y agoNo, Mozilla is working on implementing Media Source Extensions API [1] which is the same as Google Chrome and Chromebooks [2]. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778617 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778617 [2] http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/15/netflix-html5-chromebooks/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/15/netflix-html5-chromebooks/