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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

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HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

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HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.
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    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.

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      “license cost” is a stupid problem to have in the first place. adopt a foss standard.

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        Well, hevc already is a standard. It’s too late now. AV1 will need some time until it’s widely adopted.

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      https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NMZLZ57R3T7

      You can still buy it yourself. It’s only $1.

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        Not in this case, this is the codec, but still, because it’s blocked in acpi, there’s no way to enable it again in Windows, even if you pay that dollar. Workaround: install Linux

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          blocked in acpi

          install Linux

          Huh? How could Linux solve an ACPI problem?

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            it ignores that and uses it anyway (according to the comments on the article, i did not test this)

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