if your going to tell me to use vlc, you have a point but think of the average user, they are paying for it unironically 😭. just what have we come to...

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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah mostly just blame MPEG. They make great tech and then make sure to suck every drop of blood/money out of those who want to use it

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Seems like it kinda improved with H.266, but since it's still not completely royalty-free, fuck that codec lol

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah I’m hoping the tech consortium that built AV1 continues to push through with new releases, though they’ll be fighting mpeg every step of the way on patents and shit

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Honestly webm is perfectly fine and free. Whenever I'm making something I always use webm and opus and it's never let me down. Opus is also fucking awesome, unequivocally the best lossy audio codec for any use. Speech and music. Low bitrate and high bitrate (which for Opus is ~160kbps).