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Microsoft Edge To Support Dolby Audio
jones_supa writes: Microsoft has revealed that its new Edge web browser will come with support for Dolby Audio in order to offer high-class audio when visiting websites. "It allows websites to match the compelling visuals of H.264 video with equally compelling multi-channel audio. It works well with AVC/H.264 video and also with our previously announced HLS and MPEG DASH Type 1 streaming features, which both support integrated playback of an HLS or DASH manifest," Microsoft explains in a blog post. Windows 10 will also ship with a Dolby Digital Plus codec.
Indeed. Web browsers have generally not been on my list of applications that are permitted to play sound, ever since the capability to play MIDI was introduced in Netscape. Why would anyone want that? I do NOT want random websites that I look at to be able to decide what sound comes out of my speakers. I already have a media player, thanks, and the web browser is not it.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
Everything about the web is like that. We are in the process of doing "on the web" everything we have already been doing locally for decades,
Ogg is not in grey IP limbo, especially not Vorbis. I'll agree with you on Google's WebM, but only because it's comedy gold how they got everyone else to agree to use it, then decided to keep h263 support, effectively rendering WebM completely pointless, presumably because it would cost more to transcode all of YouTube than it would to just let all that effort on WebM be rendered completely pointless. And yet they still think people will adopt WebP like being burned once wasn't enough.
Dolby does a lot of good research. That you throw them aside as a relic of the past, while at the same time discrediting them for some of the formats you praise (AAC is a thing in part due in part to Dolby's participation in creating the standard) simply shows that you have a myopic and illogical view of the world.
Kid-proof tablet..