It's clearly a move to make torrent for movies unviable and get funding from Netflix.
Is that a hardware or software issue? I.e. is it caused by the windows driver for these laptops' graphic units?
Does HEVC work with the Linux drivers on these machines?
So the hardware is capable, but refuses to work until someone pays for the licensing cost. Yay capitalism bringing innovation!
Can't current CPUs decode it in real time?
Yeah, because of the ASICs built into them to enable that decoding.
Without that, a 4K HEVC video is in upwards of 100+ billion operations/s to decode on the CPU. Which limits you to high end CPUs getting capped out on something you essentially get for "free" otherwise
I meant without dedicated circuits, obviously. Can't it be parallelised? Many cpus have a lot of relatively idle cores at a given time...
I remember that my 486 had trouble with mp3 files, but soon enough, I got a new machine with many more spare cycles.
You know what? Good.
They're a business and they need to make money!
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