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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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 87 points 8 months ago (17 children)

Lots of people shitting on Microsoft on this thread ignoring that it's not Microsoft who charge for a codec and that Microsoft promote a royalty-free HEVC competitor called AV1.

Guaranteed this video file is from an Apple device, where patent-encumbered HEVC is the default recording format.

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (13 children)

Google Pixel also record in HEVC. The problem with AV1 is that unlike HEVC it wasn't made to be easily encoded in hardware. Which is probably also the fault of patents, but still...

[–] verdare@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

AV1 was designed with hardware decoding in mind. The reason it isn’t as widely supported on hardware is because it was released 5 years after HEVC. It takes a while for new codecs to get hardware support, and even longer for that support to become ubiquitous.

Also, AV1 has the uphill battle of not being able to use any of the patented technology in HEVC.

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago

We're talking about encoding here

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