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HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
They are disabling it because the license cost went up 4 cents? Just pass that cost onto the customer. Even if they mark that up several times, I would rather pay that than have my battery drained because I have to software decode a video.
There is still a lot of H.265 content out there. I have many terabytes of it that I don't want to transcode.
"license cost" is a stupid problem to have in the first place. adopt a foss standard, why won't this get through to these thick skulled morons.
Well, hevc already is a standard. It’s too late now. AV1 will need some time until it’s widely adopted.