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W3C Workshop on Web and Media production
https://www.w3.org/2021/03/media-production-workshop/
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Mechanism to access hardware/software codecs present on the system #40

Open tidoust opened 2 years ago

tidoust commented 2 years ago

Some plug-in mechanism to access the hardware or software encoders/decoders present on the system, even though the browser may not natively support them.

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chcunningham commented 2 years ago

For folks interested, am I right that this is this mostly about HEVC? Or are there other codecs you see on platforms that are frequently missing from browsers?

tidoust commented 2 years ago

For folks interested, am I right that this is this mostly about HEVC? Or are there other codecs you see on platforms that are frequently missing from browsers?

As discussed during the live sessions, codecs used in media production workflows are more specialized ones, like REDCODE, ARRIRAW, or ProRes.