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…

  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
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    8 months ago

    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
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      8 months ago

      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…

      • KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl
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        8 months ago

        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.

      • kautau@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Yeah mostly just blame MPEG. They make great tech and then ensure to suck every drop of blood/money out of those who want to use it

        • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de
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          8 months ago

          Seems like it kinda improved with H.266, but since it’s still not completely royalty-free, fuck that codec lol

          • kautau@lemmy.world
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            8 months ago

            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

      • OsaErisXero@kbin.run
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        8 months ago

        Wouldn’t it be the chipset vendors who would implement AV1 (or any other codec) in hardware?

      • verdare [he/him]@beehaw.org
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        8 months ago

        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.