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Every new software and hardware is moving towards the royalty free, agile and efficient AV1 codec. But out of nowhere and 9 years after its release, they add s

Every new software and hardware is moving towards the royalty free, agile and efficient AV1 codec. But out of nowhere and 9 years after its release, they add support to the mother of all royalties HEVC codec. Probably had some kind of deal to benefit their android partner Samsung, since they own pretty much most of HEVC patents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#Patent_licensing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#P...

johndfsgdgdfg 4y ago
acchow 4y ago
Samsung owns most HEVC patents? That doesn’t make sense given that MPEG LA is suing Samsung for HEVC patent infringement
newZWhoDis 4y ago
dmitriid 4y ago
Royalty free, agile etc. codec is aggressively pushed by Google on pain of removing support for and not allowing to run its products https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues Also, support for HVEC in existing devices is already there and not going anywhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33339193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33339193
bobsmooth 4y ago
I'll consider AV1 a real codec when TV and movie torrents are encoded with it.
fomine3 4y ago
Bytedance employee worked to support HEVC https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-decoding https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-deco... https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1286132 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128613...
m463 4y ago
I could be that apple added hevc and heif to their phones (I noticed this long ago when an older iphone wouldn't show imessage images directly from newer phones that were sending images in heif)
- alwillis 4y ago
  I could be that apple added hevc and heif to their phones Apple made a big deal about HEVC and HEIF starting in 2017. It’s been integrated into macOS, iOS and tvOS since then. The Camera app on iOS has defaulted to storing photos in HEIF since 2017 or 2018. High Efficiency Image File Format—https://developer.apple.com/wwdc17/513 https://developer.apple.com/wwdc17/513 HEVC Video with Alpha.—https://developer.apple.com/wwdc19/506 https://developer.apple.com/wwdc19/506 Create image processing apps powered by Apple Silicon—https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/10153 https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/10153
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johndfsgdgdfg 4y ago

acchow 4y ago

Samsung owns most HEVC patents? That doesn’t make sense given that MPEG LA is suing Samsung for HEVC patent infringement

newZWhoDis 4y ago

dmitriid 4y ago

Royalty free, agile etc. codec is aggressively pushed by Google on pain of removing support for and not allowing to run its products https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues Also, support for HVEC in existing devices is already there and not going anywhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33339193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33339193

bobsmooth 4y ago

I'll consider AV1 a real codec when TV and movie torrents are encoded with it.

fomine3 4y ago

Bytedance employee worked to support HEVC https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-decoding https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-deco... https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1286132 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128613...

m463 4y ago

I could be that apple added hevc and heif to their phones (I noticed this long ago when an older iphone wouldn't show imessage images directly from newer phones that were sending images in heif)

alwillis 4y ago
I could be that apple added hevc and heif to their phones Apple made a big deal about HEVC and HEIF starting in 2017. It’s been integrated into macOS, iOS and tvOS since then. The Camera app on iOS has defaulted to storing photos in HEIF since 2017 or 2018. High Efficiency Image File Format—https://developer.apple.com/wwdc17/513 https://developer.apple.com/wwdc17/513 HEVC Video with Alpha.—https://developer.apple.com/wwdc19/506 https://developer.apple.com/wwdc19/506 Create image processing apps powered by Apple Silicon—https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/10153 https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/10153

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