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H264/AC3 in Edge


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I think this may have been overlooked on the other thread, and is a pretty big improvement in the Web client if I'm understanding this correctly.

 

Per this blog post : https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/26/announcing-dolby-audio-for-high-performance-audio-in-microsoft-edge/

 

Edge supports DD and DD+ (AC3) in HLS streams. This would mean that it'd be the only webclient where transcoding shouldn't (?) be necessary for most media.

 

Please advise and correct me if I'm missreading this.

 

Regards.

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it still is limited by the containers that it supports. so for example, are your files mostly mp4? if so then great, this will really help you.

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You told me the same thing about the Chromecast (it doesn't support natively .mkv's, yet it still doesn't transconde H264/AC3 in .mkv's!). Wouldn't this work the same way?

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chromecast can handle mkv by masquerading the response headers to disguise it as something else. that's how we also have mkv support in the chrome browser. but i have not been able to get that to work in edge.

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