On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Oliver Lietz <oli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > Firefox WebRTC supports H.264. > Yes but only Baseline profile and not with high quality. > I believe that OpenH264 has started to add some high profile features, but yes, it's not currently HP. Focus is for WebRTC, not for streaming. > Broadcast quality encoding requires more than just enabling h264, > it requires specific access on encoding features and algorithms. > (I/P/Keyframe structure, profile/level, bitrate control, ...) > Sure. You will be able to negotiate some but not all of this, depending on API surface. > Furthermore there might be specific capture devices which need > special driver support (e.g. Blackmagic) Yes, for this you will obviously need external support. > In any case, this is the set of use cases WebRTC is intended to support > and so the right direction to be going is to work with WebRTC > > (potentially helping us > > enhance WebRTC to support your applications) rather than doubling > > down on NPAPI. > > > > -Ekr > > We are working with WebRTC and it has it's good use cases. > However it would not replace a complete live broadcast architecture > (at least not yet) without adding a server component which makes > the whole setup much more complicated. > At the moment we can directly send live streams to CDN like Akamai > with highest possible H264 quality. > This is definitely not possible with WebRTC. > > What would "helping us" mean for you, and how can we do this? In some cases, submitting patches that provide the functionality you want. In others, working to get new APIs standardized to support that functionality. However, it also sounds like you may need some very specialized stuff that isn't really likely to come to the general browser use case for a while. -Ekr _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
