HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

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• BaconWrappedEnigma@lemmy.nz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It needs hardware and software support

    The big players are very much pushing for this but it takes time to develop.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just love software patients…

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So it’ll be done in software instead with every player that supports it and few will notice the performance difference.

  Other than those companies being cheapskates, this is kind of a nothing burger.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It means worse battery life and higher CPU usage

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