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 ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨BrikoX@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

No money, no hardware decoding.

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ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Great; AV1 can take over faster.

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Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
How many users are watching H.265 content? Is that what YouTube uses on desktop?

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- BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  - Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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