yes, thats the entire meme.
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...
Imagine what the world would be like without free software.
i mean pirating would be a lot more relevant i guess, assuming the companys are just as big of dicks
Pirating doesnt really exist without foss tho does it? All the tools, even just for dvd ripping could never exist the same way as closed source software.
have fun pirating stuff with your subscription based torrent client, that communicates home and whose operators know your payment information ;w;
dont give them ideas
You joke, but it really exists: the company that acquired uTorrent 17 years ago now sells an ad-free version of their current torrent client as "BitTorrent Pro" for USD$20/year, or alternatively as part of a VPN service bundle for $70/year.
Needless to say, stick with FOSS clients like qBittorrent/Deluge/etc instead.
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.
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...
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
Seems like it kinda improved with H.266, but since it's still not completely royalty-free, fuck that codec lol
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
Transcoder here, if you're looking to leverage quality/file size benefits of your codec, you don't encode with hardware.
As a rule of fist hardware encoding is better served for streaming purposes where you need to crush a raw 1080p or 1440p stream into something that's actually a sensible bandwith as fast as possible, especially if you're streaming 60fps because your algorithm has a time limit of 16ms per frame.
If file size with preservation of quality is something you care about, you encode as slowly and thouroughly as you can, which is why x264 on your CPU will outperform encoders like NVENC any time.
When it comes to HEVC, software encoding is only really worth it if you have the time to spare, because x265 takes between 3x and 5x as long as encoding the same footage through x264, with a 15-20% smaller file size at best. It is also more intensive to decode, which is why you still see many files with a H.264 codec.
Wouldn't it be the chipset vendors who would implement AV1 (or any other codec) in hardware?
Yes, AV1 is supported in 11th gen intel. They were also part of the consortium that pushed for it, along with Apple and Microsoft, among others. It’s almost a response to HEVC, and is far newer (2013 vs 2018). But yeah, tech companies were tired of paying for MPEG licensing so they tried to create an open format. Apple, like any business will try to milk their HEVC contracts because they were so expensive, but their chips are supporting it now too.
https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-confirms-meteor-lake-has-av1-video-encoding-and-decoding-support
https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1694598394
Yes, and there are some implementations now, but it's more complicated than for HEVC and also less efficient (I think)
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.
HEVC is decently popular in pirate circles
Yeah, because we don't have to pay for it.
Hell yeah
install vlc
no
Why no? Just yes
its too annoying to set defaults on windows, literally have to do it per file format which isn't even sorted by any means, and the "open with" doesn't even work for me because the program just never opens. windows partition will go bye bye soon anyway
~~There is a new option allowing you to set an app default to all is compatible files type. So it's a one click problem https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-default-programs-in-windows-e5d82cad-17d1-c53b-3505-f10a32e1894d~~
Turns out it doesn't, my bad.
Everyone observe the success of Microsoft here at swaying people.
I'm sorry that it's come to this
Please?
Here's the free device manufacturer version: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n4wgh0z6vhq
What travesty of a video player is this?
microshafts built in one :) luckily VLC allows playing hevc/mkv files out of the box lol
windows default
Install VLC.
there's "HEVC … from Device Manufacturer" available to download for free if you really need it afaik
Only if your computer's manufacturer paid for it.
I was able to sideload it using the store app on my old laptop where I got the same pay to install popup. On my newer Framework I noticed that the device manufacturer version was auto-installed.
Now I need to see vid_899880425_035412_980
Pay to ~~win~~ play
Blame the video creator for using a non free codec.
Turns out you can download that codec pack as a torrent.
I’m convinced humanity doesn’t deserve software or computers in general. OP really be complaining about less than 6 quarters…
i use linux - all codecs are already preinstalled there on most distributions, and if not, they are available in the repos for free (like everything else in there). why cant it be included in a $150 os which is owned by a muli billion dollar company? they are just sucking more money out of clueless individuals.
Nonfree media codecs like HEVC/h265 are affected by US software patents. Distributing them from US servers without paying license fees to MPEG LA can put the host at risk of lawsuit. VLC, deb-multimedia (Debian), and RPM Fusion (Fedora) all avoid that by hosting in France, but even with those sources enabled patent issues can break things like hardware acceleration. Free codecs like AV1/VP9/Opus avoid all these problems.
Microsoft is US-based and can't avoid those per-install fees. They could cut the profit from every single Windows license but apparently chose not to.
That is a strawman interpretation of OP's point. In addition to being wrong, the technique is destructive to discussion.
It is infinitely more constructive (as in, people are more likely to read and care about your opinion) to use "Steel Man": https://constantrenewal.com/steel-man
With that, or just with some base level charitable thinking, we could look at OP's point like this: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/nickel+and+dime+you
So how many lootboxes should I put you down for, 300 or 400? They're only 99 cents each, so I'll just put you down for 1,000. After all, you wouldn't complain about less than 4 quarters, right?
Install MPC-HC.
I remember Windows days and installing K-Lite or CCCP
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