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• whatevaa 1y ago
  If you experience early failure your device is badly engineered. Mobile/power constrained devices don't use software decoding, that just a path to miserable experience. Hardware decoding is basically required. Meanwhile my desktop can SW decode 4k youtube with 3% reported cpu usage.
• badpun 1y ago
  Not to mention making your device obsolete. My 12 year old laptop already can't decode some of the videos on Pirate Bay in real time, because the codec is too demanding.
  • bee_rider 1y ago
    Of course, we’re living in the future where Moore’s law has seriously slowed down. But, as a product of the 90’s this is a kind wild thing to see. I can’t imagine in the year 2000 being disappointed content wouldn’t play on a 386 or something. But, I mean, your expectation is not that unreasonable, computers were quite good by 2013. It is just an eye-opening framing.
• testdelacc1 1y ago
  > power usage, lesser battery life, higher energy bills I like how you padded this list by repeating the same thing thrice. Like, increased power usage is obviously going to lead to higher energy bills. And it’s especially weird because it’s not true? The current SOTA codec AV1 is at a sweet spot for both compression and energy demand (https://arxiv.org/html/2402.09001v1 https://arxiv.org/html/2402.09001v1). Consumers are not worse off!