VideoLAN @videolan App Stores were a mistake. Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users… For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?
My 2007-era desktop was perfectly capable as an HD video editor and streaming server. Anything worth a shit in the Desktop space since round-about 2010 has been decent at on-the-fly transcoding as well.
Your incredulity is astounding to me. The Xbox 360 and PS3 were both perfectly capable as streaming players, way back in 2006. The PC’s of that era were more powerful, not less, and avoiding emulation or discrete gpus are some of the main reasons those consoles used PowerPC. They wanted a more compact solution
The media in their day, which was often HD 1080P (more realistically 720P, but that’s mostly down to what screens were available - not a restriction the PC hardware suffered from). Still the majority of TVs and monitors being sold are 1080P, or even 720P, yet 1600x1200 monitors, and the hardware that could drive them, were out in the ninetees.
Don’t neglect that PCs were juggling multiple apps(and monitors) at these resolutions by the late ninetees as well, and dedicated mpeg encode/decode was not at all uncommon. It was part of the MMX instruction set for Pentium CPUs, including the Pentium that came in my 2001-era Gateway the government gave me more or less for free.
The mid-aughts were not some ancient land of techno-boredom and tech mediocrity. This current future we find ourselves in is just extra pathetic when you hold up the bullshit we’ve accepted in exchange for pitiful technological progress(for you or I), versus what we already had twenty years ago. The main differences now are truly down to power consumption and portability, although the iPhone came out in 2007, and my color PalmPilot played video well in 2003(limitations were, yes, storage, and slow wifi)
1999: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/779230
Edit: just (re-)read your bit about how capturing greater than 420P video was impossible. My wedding in 2007 was recorded in 720P.
