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  • Hands on: Google Maps in CarPlay fights Apple Maps for your dashboard

    jeromecjeromec
    I believe Google Maps already has offline maps.
    gatorguytoysandme

  • How to use Safari's Picture-in-Picture mode with YouTube on macOS

    jeromecjeromec
    StrangeDays said:
    I'd just be happy if I could play embedded YouTube clips in iOS' full-screen mode on my iPad Pro. Apparently I'm the only person who is denied by YouTube:


    You're not the only one. It drove me quite mad, especially since it used to work. But it seems to be working in iOS 12 beta. Which now has a public beta. Unless Youtube (again?)pro-actively blocks it.
    StrangeDays

  • Google brings ARCore out of beta, raising challenge to Apple's ARKit

    jeromecjeromec
    Isn't it funny to see a Porsche app to demo a new Android feature? (Porsche offers Carplay in its cars but refused Android Auto for privacy reasons)
    racerhomie3magman1979watto_cobraLordeHawk

  • Apple TV 4K won't play 4K YouTube videos because of missing Google codec

    jeromecjeromec
    A small correction here.

    Regular (SDR) Youtube 4K videos are available in H264.
    Only HDR 4K videos seem not to be.

    For example, I could download a 4GB 30 minutes 4K Youtube video in 3 minutes using the free 4K Video Downloader app.
    The downloaded video is H264 encoded and SDR (BT.709).

    And since my 2012 retina MacBook Pro cannot encode H264 4K at 10x, no transcoding occured.
    The video is here:

    Note that the video I download is SDR (with the BT.709) color space, and not HDR although the video is supposed to be available in HDR.
    (I believe H264 does not support HDR and BT.2020)

    It is very possible and likely that Youtube serves 4K HDR video exclusively in VP9, but 4K SDR video seems also available in H264.

    And could be enabled on the Apple TV 4K without the need for VP9.

    And Google could very well implement a software VP9 decoder in is tcOS Youtube app if it wanted to.
    I am quite sure the A10X Fusion would be more tahn enough to decode 4K HDR VP9 video.
    lkruppdoozydozenbradipaoviclauyyc

  • Apple releases macOS 10.12.4, watchOS 3.2 & tvOS 10.2 updates

    jeromecjeromec
    It appears tvOS 10.2 kills 3rd party Airplay streaming apps, such as the (Mac) Beamer app I have used a lot to stream movies in about any format to the Apple TV.

    Apple did that by forcing device verification in Airplay settings, and it seems device verification is only available to not too old Apple devices, but apparently not to 3rd party apps.

    I really hope I am wrong there and it is just a matter of developer updating their apps but I am not holding my breath.

    This is clearly functionality reduction in a point update, and was not in any way announced in the release notes.
    I gave away my 2 old 3rd generation Apple TVs and it seems I am going to buy a new old Apple TV.
    Or a Chromecast ultra.
    But I'd really like to avoid that.

    This change does not even make sense from a security standpoint : requiring validation from devices which are not on the same network would bring about the same benefits, without killing functionality.

    I am quite unhappy about Apple on this one.
    retrogusto