Acer and Asus can’t sell their PCs in Germany until they reach an agreement with Nokia about the use of HEVC.
Get everyone in AV1. so much better quality. Pain in the ass to encode though.
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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iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours 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 1 hour ago
The best time was long ago, the second best time is today.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Assuming you have hardware that supports it
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour 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.
DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 5 hours 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 5 hours ago
Hosting and development would just move to a country that doesn’t allow software patents.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Well that’s one way to move people to AV1
pineapple_pizza@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Am I missing something? The title mentions h264(AVC) but the article talks about HEVC which is h265