“license cost” is a stupid problem to have in the first place. make that shit open source.
Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
They are disabling it because the license cost went up 4 cents? Just pass that cost onto the customer. Even if they mark that up several times, I would rather pay that than have my battery drained because I have to software decode a video.
There is still a lot of H.265 content out there. I have many terabytes of it that I don’t want to transcode.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 minutes ago
apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NMZLZ57R3T7
You can still buy it yourself. It’s only $1.