2011-02-08, 01:05
haifischjunge Wrote:Also Apple never integrated MPEG2 in their products, first they used custom codecs like cinepak, then mpeg4, then h263 (at least for ichat), now h264. So it would have been a waste of circuits to integrate MPEG2-hardware-decoding (at least from apples pov)
The circuits are already there in the form of the PowerVR hw decoder, mpeg2 is just not exposed as a decoding format.