Apple Adds VP8 Support for WebRTC to Safari Technology Preview Release 68

Posted by skunkworker on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:40PM
from the self-post dept.

In today's Safari Technology Preview 68 Apple added VP8 support for WebRTC.

https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/release-notes/

WebRTC

Added VP8 support to WebRTC

Added support for IceCandidate stats

Added support for reporting “display composited video frames” through the VideoPlaybackQuality object

Added support for RTCPeerConnection.generateCertificate

Added support for RTCConfiguration.certificates

Implemented error handler of MediaRecorder

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Re:Apple Adds VP8 Support for WebRTC to Safari Technology Pr... by rakic on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:02PM (#18294825)

Also: support for dark mode via prefers-color-scheme CSS property, and <input type=color>.

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Re:Apple Adds VP8 Support for WebRTC to Safari Technology Pr... by glhaynes on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @04:15PM (#18295938)

I take that to mean that VP8 works only in WebRTC contexts, i.e. you can't click a VP8 video embedded as normal in an HTML document and have it play. But I haven't tested it myself.

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Re:Apple Adds VP8 Support for WebRTC to Safari Technology Pr... by skunkworker on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @06:27PM (#18297013)

So far I've been unable to get a player to play Vp8 content but I'll keep on tinkering.

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Re:Apple Adds VP8 Support for WebRTC to Safari Technology Pr... by bradgessler on Thursday October 25, 2018 @01:43AM (#18298751)

Does this mean Google Meet will work in Safari?

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Re:Apple Adds VP8 Support for WebRTC to Safari Technology Pr... by ishanr on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @07:02PM (#18297221)

but still no fix for the sped up audio issue :(

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