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(It has a table with IE9 in it.) So here's a new table with the state of media codec support on the web, 2018 edition. My first ever blog on HTML5 audio formats still gets loads of hits, but is now well out of date.

Construct 3 encodes WebM Opus, which is now natively supported so it will skip loading the WebAssembly Opus decoder, making downloads smaller and quicker to start up.

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Ogg Vorbis audio is better quality and a smaller download than the MPEG-4 AAC alternatives. This is great news for Construct users! All existing Construct 2 content with Ogg Vorbis audio will now detect that it's supported in Edge 17 and switch to using that instead. For video it supports WebM VP8 and VP9, Ogg Theora, H.264 and even H.265 which Chrome doesn't support. Impressively, Edge 17 has parity with Chrome's media codec support: it supports all of WebM Opus, Ogg Opus, WebM Vorbis, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-4 AAC, MP3, FLAC and PCM WAV for audio.

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It's always been a significant complication with web publishing, and it seems like a kind of ridiculous problem too - why can't everyone just agree on one format? Still, we have good news today! Microsoft deserve much kudos for (finally) adding support for open media codecs in Edge 17, which is available from this week with the Windows 10 April 2018 update. Two of our first five ever blogs posts were about the subject, and we've blogged about it several times since then. I just want to cover myself - I don't want to get any surprise fees that I didn't budget for.Īlso - based on Nocturne's reply - 'In most games the audio player is part of the game and thus requires licensing.' means that any game distributed for any platform (not HTML) would then be subject to that $2500 licensing fee.We've long blogged about media codecs (the formats that audio and video are stored in) on the web. So, maybe they were misinformed, or there was a misinterpretation of the mp3 licensing terms somewhere down the line? (there is a post from a Scirra rep on this one: 'A couple of years ago we confirmed all of this with an MP3 licensing representative while developing Construct 2.'). In my research, I stumbled upon a GM competitor and what they had to say about using MP3 files in HTML5 titles: This would certainly extend browser support, and wouldn't hold small time game devs liable to licensing fees.Īfter all, most people are here using GMS because it doesn't require us to pay and greatly appreciate the detailed responses. Why no support for an MP3 alternative, like AAC? (Not ideal, as the game would then not function with audio in every browser situation).

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Which, if you hit that number of sales with your game, you should not have any issue paying that $2500.īut, with web-based games (which are most likely free to play), its not exactly improbable to think that you could hit 5000+ total plays if the game is right and the right marketing campaign is executed.Ĭan we simply ditch the MP3 files that get exported, and only use OGG? Now, this fee is not applicable to anything under 5000 distributions. The problem is the $2500 licensing fees involved in using MP3 audio in distributed games. I would assume HTML5 builds package audio with MP3 and OGG for browser support. I've made a few games target for web-based deployment.įrom my readings, GMS only supports MP3, WAV and OGG for your game projects.

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