Dell and HP turned off HEVC decoding on recent laptops without telling anyone

[dangh]

The AV1 codec licensing is being handled by the same company that handles HEVC.

It is open source project, how do you want licence a free, opens source product?

 

[bviktor]

That is complete nonsense. AV1 is far less efficient than h.265 and doesnt match it in quality. You're thinking h.264, which AV1 IS superior to. H.265 is hard to find in use in the wild due to terrible licensing issues.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

https://www.gumlet.com/learn/av1-vs-hevc/

AV1 is better both in size and quality. It's also 5 years newer, so it'd be pretty strange to develop a worse codec half a decade later, with all the engineering talent of Amazon, Apple, MS, Google, NV, Intel, and Netflix, among others.

According to a recent MSU Codec Comparison report, AV1 is currently the leading codec in video quality, providing the same apparent visual quality while consuming 12% less data than H.265 (HEVC). Another study by Bitmovin confirms these findings, concluding that AV1's video quality was superior to HEVC and VP9 codec when played at the same bitrate settings.

 

[bviktor]

The AV1 codec licensing is being handled by the same company that handles HEVC.

Once again, pure misinformation. Is it really that hard to open up Wikipedia?

HEVC is licensed by MPEG-LA, for money, while AV1 is developed by AOMedia, but it is not "licensed" per se as the whole purpose of AV1 is to be completely royalty free. There's no license to be individually acquired, you got it free, inherently, right away.

If you want to nitpick, yes, it is "licensed", but the license works the opposite way - it's there to grant you perpetual free use, instead of taking it away from you.

Alliance for Open Media Patent License 1.0

An Alliance of Global Media Innovators

aomedia.org

Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Licensor, on behalf of itself and successors in interest and assigns, grants Licensee a non-sublicensable, perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as expressly stated in this License) patent license to its Necessary Claims to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import or distribute any Implementation.

 

[bviktor]

granted, vlc plays everything really good, but the player and gui are horrible, im embarrassed by how user unfriendly it is

GitHub - clsid2/mpc-hc: Media Player Classic

Media Player Classic. Contribute to clsid2/mpc-hc development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[bitwarden]

“HEVCopocalypse cases a larger moat between Apple and Dell media functions”

 

[noXLar]

GitHub - clsid2/mpc-hc: Media Player Classic

Media Player Classic. Contribute to clsid2/mpc-hc development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

is exactly what im using hehe

 

[dangh]

GitHub - clsid2/mpc-hc: Media Player Classic

Media Player Classic. Contribute to clsid2/mpc-hc development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

That's a one stuff, but if the acceleration is disabled on firmware level this won't change a thing.

 

[RaXelliX]

I'm still dumbfounded that there are so many people that don't know that the glorious software VLC exists. Plays EVERYTHING I've ever thrown at it without issue

<3 VLC

Unless you want the best image quality. That is why I moved to MPC-HC. I got sick of VLC's lack of quality.

 

[WaphleStomp]

My Linux system works just fine ... sadly, though, I'm using a 15 year-old computer so I only get about 1 fps, but it works ;o)