H.264 irrelevant yet? [LWN.net]

H.264 irrelevant yet?

Posted Jun 7, 2025 2:45 UTC (Sat) by aphedges (subscriber, #171718)
In reply to: H.264 irrelevant yet? by Cyberax
Parent article: OpenH264 induces headaches for Fedora

> Unfortunately, Apple is still dragging its feet and doesn't have hardware encoding support for it.

They thankfully added it recently! According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Operating_system_support, Apple added it on Macs and iPhones in 2023.

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Posted Jun 7, 2025 2:48 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes, but they support decoding only, not encoding. So if you want to use AV1 for something like WebRTC, you're locked out of iOS.

Posted Sep 22, 2025 20:18 UTC (Mon) by aphedges (subscriber, #171718) [Link]

Thanks for pointing that out! I missed that it was only decoding support.