Apple is nuts - Video compression via JPG/JSON/canvas

postmortemIA

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RampantAndroid

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Yeah, nothing found here that's really all that interesting other than the fact that the iphone can only display video tags at fullscreen. More like apple fails...
 

mosco

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Yeah, nothing found here that's really all that interesting other than the fact that the iphone can only display video tags at fullscreen. More like apple fails...

As someone who works for a digital media company working on mobile development on android/ios, I can tell you that android video tag is no saint.
 

RampantAndroid

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As someone who works for a digital media company working on mobile development on android/ios, I can tell you that android video tag is no saint.

Never said it was...I only picked up android a few days ago and have little to no experience.
 

RampantAndroid

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I suspect that you got sidetracked by the retina display thing.

This is cooler than that.

What exactly is a MPEG other than the 3 frame types (I, P, B) where you end up taking one I frame and then using the P and B frames as often as you can and the I frames as little as possible. What Apple did is basically took a limitation of their platform - not being able to use the video tag in a non-fullscreen way - and hacked together a rather inefficient and costly (processing wise) solution. A neat read through in terms of the math involved and the work they did - but not revolutionary...nor commendable.
 

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What exactly is a MPEG other than the 3 frame types (I, P, B) where you end up taking one I frame and then using the P and B frames as often as you can and the I frames as little as possible. What Apple did is basically took a limitation of their platform - not being able to use the video tag in a non-fullscreen way - and hacked together a rather inefficient and costly (processing wise) solution. A neat read through in terms of the math involved and the work they did - but not revolutionary...nor commendable.

Limitation of Mobile WebKit, not the iOS platform, Android suffers the same limitations. :sneaky:
 

Ichinisan

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What exactly is a MPEG other than the 3 frame types (I, P, B) where you end up taking one I frame and then using the P and B frames as often as you can and the I frames as little as possible. What Apple did is basically took a limitation of their platform - not being able to use the video tag in a non-fullscreen way - and hacked together a rather inefficient and costly (processing wise) solution. A neat read through in terms of the math involved and the work they did - but not revolutionary...nor commendable.

It's neat. That's what it is. :colbert:
 

Ichinisan

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Limitation of Mobile WebKit, not the iOS platform, Android suffers the same limitations. :sneaky:

Strangely, the iPad seems to do embedded video just fine in iOS 6. I watched a clip on redlettermedia.com last night and it plays in the page with a full-screen option.