Comments on: WebRTC iOS 11 Support. Are We There Yet?

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 07:28:28 +0000

In reply to Victor. Everything. Check out my more recent articles around the state of WebRTC.

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 22:38:13 +0000

What on this post changes from the announcement of VP8 https://webkit.org/blog/8672/on-the-road-to-webrtc-1-0-including-vp8/ ?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 10:23:27 +0000

In reply to Danny Black. You likely need to add the playsinline attribute on the tag. That's needed for iOS.

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:15:42 +0000

In reply to Devin.

Devin,

The standards are quite clear. H.264 and VP8 are both mandatory to implement in browsers. Apple at the moment is ignoring that though.

H.264 works across all browsers, but comes with its own set of limitations.

You can learn more in this free mini video course: https://bloggeek.me/h264-vp8-video-course/

By: Devin

Devin — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:55:01 +0000

Thanks for writing this up. Looks like they’re still working out which codec to use for standard. At the meantime, does this means it will be necessary to convert codec to make it work on iOS – either in Safari or native app? Or is there a codec that we can use that would work everywhere including iOS without any need to convert? Thanks.

By: Victor J. Duvanenko

Victor J. Duvanenko — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:55:25 +0000

In reply to Tsahi Levent-Levi.

One motivation factor for Apple and Microsoft to use H.264 followed by H.265 is battery life for mobile devices. Here is an article of back and forth between Microsoft and Google about battery life of their browsers (https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/4/14/15307524/microsoft-browser-battery-life-edge-vs-chrome-windows-10-bakeoff). With competition we all benefit. Apple and Intel/Microsoft have invested heavily over many years in hardware encoders/decoders that save power over CPU-based codecs. Intel is starting to support h/w acceleration of VP9 decode in the 7-th gen CPUs (https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/whats-new-in-intel-media-sdk-r2). It’s not an easy task and takes a long time, as mistakes are costly.

Hopefully, addition of h/w acceleration support in CPUs for VP9/H.264/HEVC decode will sway all browser vendors to use them to extend battery life and provide a better user experience.

By: Danny Black

Danny Black — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:22:01 +0000

In reply to Tsahi Levent-Levi. The getusermedia does not work on the iPhone 7 Plus. All you get is a black screen. There is a bug. Apple needs to fix this!!

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 04:51:36 +0000

In reply to dan.

Dan,

I don’t have an iOS device myself, so can’t really say. From what I hear (and if you look at Laduram’s comment above), it should work rather well.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 01:30:10 +0000

Hi, i have a major question. Will iOS 11 actually support getusermedia on the safari browser. The reason I’m asking is because I have iOS 11 now supposedly the final release and the getusermedia demo still doesn’t work. I. Getting a just black screen. Any knowledge as to what may Happen would be a great help to me. I have been waiting for getusermedia to come to iPhone for 6 years

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 19:04:06 +0000

Hi, i have a major question. Will iOS 11 actually support getusermedia on the safari browser. The reason I’m asking is because I have iOS 11 beta 10 and the getusermedia demo still doesn’t work. I. Getting a just black screen. Any knowledge as to what may Happen would be a great help to me. I have been waiting for getusermedia to come to iPhone for 6 years