- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 13:12:48 +0300
- To: Jer Noble <jer.noble@apple.com>
- Cc: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html-media@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Jer Noble <jer.noble@apple.com> wrote: > > On Apr 3, 2013, at 3:18 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > >> Which browsers currently implement MPEG-2 without DRM in HTML5 video? > > Safari on OS X supports plain MPEG-2 media as well as MPEG-2 Transport Streams in <video> elements through HTTP Live Streaming. Whoa. That's news to me. Do I understand correctly that since Lion, MPEG-2 decoding is available to all apps as part of QuickTime X? That a rather surprising direction to go especially as fewer and fewer Macs come with DVD drives and Microsoft, as I understand, kicked MPEG-2 out of the set of system codecs into a separate product as of Windows 8 (like Apple used to have the QuickTime MPEG-2 decoder as separate product). I gather that Safari does not expose all QuickTime codecs to the Web, though. Why expose MPEG-2? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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