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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 03 2013 @ 10:39 PM EST |
Interesting.
IIRC
When it came to MPEG-2 users had to pay extra for a QuickTime plugin to
playback MPEG-2 video outside of Apple's DVD player app. I guess the
DVD Player App was licensed via the the MPEG-2 rights included with the
DVD hardware built-in
iDVD (free app) could never burn a DVD directly to an external DVD drive.
DVD Studio Pro and other paid apps could burn DVDs to external drives.
iMovie (free app) won't playback interlaced h.264 or MPEG-2. The video
footage has to be imported and converted to Apple Intermediate Codec
(AIC) which IIRC is not interlaced.
Final Cut Pro (paid app) seems to playback interlaced h.264?
So it seems Apple might pay licenses for interlace h.264 for its paid apps,
but avoids using interlaced h.264 on its free apps to reduce costs.
Interesting to me, a video guy for the last 15 years.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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