Submitted 4 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
No money, no hardware decoding.
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.
How many users are watching H.265 content? Is that what YouTube uses on desktop?
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.
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
Isn’t AV1 a lot lower quality?
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Great; AV1 can take over faster.