• Diyan
• On May 28, 2016

Microsoft Edge to support plugin-free video calling

Microsoft has included preliminary support for H.264/AVC in the real-time communications (RTC) stack in Microsoft Edge. The feature enters the preview stage for Windows Insiders running PC Build 14352.

Those who wish can now navigate to about:flags and check ‘Enable experimental H.264/AVC support’.

Full H.264/AVC support would eventually allow users to make video calls from Microsoft Edge without plugins.

The support for H.264/AVC currently includes:

• Support for packetization-mode 1, per RFC 7742

• Support for Constrained Baseline Profile with levels up to 4.2 (i.e. with profile-level-id=42c02a)

• Support for the absolute send time header extension (abs-send-time)

• Support for Picture Loss Indication (PLI), per RFC 4585

Source: Microsoft