Microsoft Edge, the company’s latest web browser, has finally picked up support for the H.264/AVC standard, and this has arrived in the latest Windows 10 preview build 14352.
This version made its way out a little while back.
Support for these technologies is part of the Real Time Communications (RTC) roadmap that Redmond has announced back in April. It will help enable interoperable video communication solutions across browsers during basic 1:1 calling scenarios.
The software titan detailed this in a post on the official blog:
“Today we’re excited to announce preliminary support for H.264/AVC support in the real-time communications (RTC) stack in Microsoft Edge, as initially promised in our April roadmap update. You can preview this feature in Windows Insider Preview builds starting with EdgeHTML 14.14352 by navigating to about:flags and checking “Enable experimental H.264/AVC support.”
This change helps enable interoperable video communications solutions across browsers for basic 1:1 calling scenarios.”
The company also listed support for a few other features in the RTC stack, and you can take a look at the full technical details at the link above.
Of course, this is just a stepping stone, and more work remains to be done to enable full support for the important and widely used H.264/AVC standard in Edge. Development looks set to continue in Redstone, now known as the Anniversary Update.
source:windows10update
