Comment on 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

iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That doesn’t help with all the content that’s been encoded in H.264 over the last two decades though.

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The best time was long ago, the second best time is today.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Assuming you have hardware that supports it

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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