<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 10:36 PM Gary Buhrmaster <<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 11:58 PM James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com" target="_blank">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> It is interesting that SiliconDust HD app plays MPEG2 fine on my phone<br>
<br>
A couple of data points there.<br>
<br>
* While most SoCs that support H.264/H.265 also support<br>
MPEG2, not all vendors license MPEG2 (Apple is a notorious<br>
example where they refused to enable hardware MPEG2<br>
decode when the VPU was known to include it).<br>
<br>
* Even when the vendor licenses the MPEG2 codec, not all<br>
choose to include it in their particular version of mediacodec.<br>
<br>
* Not all vendors include updates from the SoC manufacturer<br>
for identified bugs (so bugs last forever).<br>
<br>
* SiliconDust has an entire Android team (not just one Peter),<br>
and QA is absolutely resource intensive.<br>
<br>
* SiliconDust will fall back from hardware to a software<br>
implementation if mediacodec indicates a particular<br>
codec is not available, or certain errors are encountered.<br>
<br>
SiliconDust also has a (paid) license from MPEG-LA<br>
(and others as needed) to enable those software fallbacks<br>
(and I doubt Peter has the funds to license those codecs).<br>
<br>
* SiliconDust also a list of specific devices which are<br>
shown to have broken implementations (even when<br>
android indicates the decode is available), and fall back<br>
to software (or are blocked entirely from installing<br>
the app at all). This is based on their experience, and<br>
because whenever a new device is introduced, they<br>
bought one to test/verify (I doubt Peter has that kind of<br>
funding).<br>
<br>
So, if you are asking Peter to support *your* device,<br>
I would recommend you talk with him and ask if<br>
sending him one of those devices is a viable option<br>
(i.e. when you buy one, buy two, and send one to<br>
Peter).<br>
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