Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec
How soon before x264 and x265 end up getting pulled and h.264 and h.265 support gets locked to Windows like is happening with HDMI 2.1 being blocked on Linux?
Software decoding is an option. My Thinkpad T480 can play 1080p AV1 if the bitrate isn't super high. That's a mid range business laptop from 2018. It's the encoding that really needs hardware acceleration.
Around 25% for a 1080p 30fps youtube video played in MPV. Power consumption is about 10-12 watts. A video with hardware acceleration uses about 8 watts.
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DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf · 20 pts · 208d
How soon before x264 and x265 end up getting pulled and h.264 and h.265 support gets locked to Windows like is happening with HDMI 2.1 being blocked on Linux?
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 208d
Hosting and development would just move to a country that doesn't allow software patents.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 208d
Does such a country exist?
iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 208d
Get everyone in AV1. so much better quality. Pain in the ass to encode though (CPU mode in handbrake I mean)
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 208d
That doesn't help with all the content that's been encoded in H.264 over the last two decades though.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 208d
Assuming you have hardware that supports it
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 208d
Software decoding is an option. My Thinkpad T480 can play 1080p AV1 if the bitrate isn't super high. That's a mid range business laptop from 2018. It's the encoding that really needs hardware acceleration.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 208d
What's your CPU usage? Sure it can handle it but I also would like to use my device without recharging.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 208d
Around 25% for a 1080p 30fps youtube video played in MPV. Power consumption is about 10-12 watts. A video with hardware acceleration uses about 8 watts.
pineapple_pizza@piefed.social · 15 pts · 208d
Am I missing something? The title mentions h264(AVC) but the article talks about HEVC which is h265
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 208d
Well that’s one way to move people to AV1