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…

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    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

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

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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