• SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    Yes this is absolutely ridiculous.

    This is also a good reason to avoid proprietary codecs. H.265 may be a great codec, but the licensing fees are basically a tax on the world.

    The best solution would be an overall switch to AV1. But silicon support for that is not nearly as widespread.

    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      Yeah that’s going to change fucking fast. My game streaming service I build from older parts to cut costs has 1 shiney modern part because of AV1. Just AV1. Nothing else influenced the purchase of that part.

      And there is no way a big company made that part just for me.