VibeSurgeon

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
It depends on what the receiving unit can decode. Sometimes there will be transcoding, but it’s usually something you want to avoid.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
These things always happen because of how dumb software patents are. There’s no guarantee the lawsuit will stick, nor do I necessarily expect it to
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Hardware encoder support I think is generally less critical. Decoding is the process that needs to happen real-time, while most encoding can be done far in advance, unless you’re live broadcasting or operating at YouTube-scale.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
AV1 already wins handily as a codec, and the only thing keeping it from being adopted more broadly than is currently the case is lack of hardware decoders on older hardware. This problem naturally solves itself as old hardware gets replaced.

Even then, dav1d is a remarkable piece of software, and software decoding is pretty viable for AV1 thanks to it. Many places have already adopted AV1, and you should expect to keep seeing it get adopted as time goes on.