Lack of hardware support

Posted Jul 6, 2009 22:53 UTC (Mon) by timschmidt (guest, #38269)
In reply to: Lack of hardware support by joedrew
Parent article: Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

That's a strawman argument... true hardware en/decoders rarely exist at all anymore. What _is_ common are general-purpose DSPs running codec-specific firmware. Supporting Vorbis or Theora is strictly a software problem, and Apple knows this.