No money, no hardware decoding.
Great; AV1 can take over faster.
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
Submitted 2 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 days ago
How many users are watching H.265 content? Is that what YouTube uses on desktop?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 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.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Isn’t AV1 a lot lower quality?
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 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
rafoix@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Those shit PCs from Dell and HP are going to feel even slower and they will have an even worse battery life. Just to save $0.02 per PC.
Their plan is to have user buy some app after purchase to unlock the hardware on their on PCs.