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

29 points by skunkworker 7y ago ↗ HN

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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rakic 7y ago ↗

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

glhaynes 7y ago ↗

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.

skunkworker 7y ago ↗

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

bradgessler 7y ago ↗

Does this mean Google Meet will work in Safari?

ishanr 7y ago ↗

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