That's actually not entirely clear to me. Which is another reason to avoid H265 altogether.... I mean, even if say Chrome started using the hardware decoders,

That's actually not entirely clear to me. Which is another reason to avoid H265 altogether.... I mean, even if say Chrome started using the hardware decoders, do you think someone from the MPEG-LA would _refrain_ from suing Google since "they're just using the Windows API"? It's already not rare to have to pay both for the hardware _and_ the software in this world.