Comment on Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Most streaming moved to AV1 since it’s a lot cheaper. H.265 is mostly used by data hoarders who want to save some space and don’t have latest hardware for AV1 (as software encoding is very slow) or a weird subset of people that can pixel spot differences and prefer H.265 over AV1 in some specific cases.

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  • rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Isn’t AV1 a lot lower quality?

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  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ah, fair enough then. I'll be honest, most video I've got in my storage is still MPEG-2. A tiny amount is MPEG-4. I don't really have anything that's nominally in H.26x

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