Acer and Asus can’t sell their PCs in Germany until they reach an agreement with Nokia about the use of HEVC.
Am I missing something? The title mentions h264(AVC) but the article talks about HEVC which is h265
Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec
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pineapple_pizza@piefed.social 2 days ago
iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Get everyone in AV1. so much better quality. Pain in the ass to encode though.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
That doesn’t help with all the content that’s been encoded in H.264 over the last two decades though.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
The best time was long ago, the second best time is today.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Assuming you have hardware that supports it
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Software decoding is an option. My Thinkpad T480 can play 1080p AV1 if the bitrate isn’t super high. That’s a mid range business laptop from 2018. It’s the encoding that really needs hardware acceleration.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Well that’s one way to move people to AV1
DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
How soon before x264 and x265 end up getting pulled and h.264 and h.265 get locked to Windows?
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Hosting and development would just move to a country that doesn’t allow software patents.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Does such a country exist?