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The article is a bit light on technical details. Can someone shed a light on how hardware decoding is disabled? Do they blow an efuse, disable it in the firmwar
by nicolaslem 11mo ago
The article is a bit light on technical details. Can someone shed a light on how hardware decoding is disabled? Do they blow an efuse, disable it in the firmware or in the OS?
- kotaKat 11mo agoFrom what I'd heard, it's the actual HP and Dell OEM'ed drivers they provide for the hardware. If you load the official Intel drivers, HEVC works fine. It's also reported that HEVC works fine on Linux on these affected laptops.
- Yokolos 11mo agoIt's not disabled in the sense many people are thinking. The codecs just aren't installed by default. The hardware is present and still functional. You just have to use software that directly supports HEVC or buy your own HEVC license on the Microsoft store for $1 to get system-wide hardware accelerated HEVC codecs.
- TiredOfLife 11mo agoThe hardware acceleration is disabled in driver. Even using VLC you won't have acceleration for HEVC.
- snvzz 11mo agoEven on Linux?
- malfist 11mo agoLinux doesn't use the same drivers as windows
- snvzz 11mo agoIs it confirmed that it is being disabled through drivers?
- TiredOfLife 11mo agoIt doesn't work in windows, but does work in linux
- beala 11mo agoI don't understand why people downvote questions like this rather than just answer the question. It's a perfectly reasonable question imo given that it's not clear how this feature is being disabled. It appears that most of this is based on reddit speculation and the OEMs don't provide a definitive answer. Meta: recently it seems like the community has been way too loose with the downvote button, but I'm not sure if I'm just noticing it more because it's getting on my nerves, or if there has actually been a change in behavior.
- rpcope1 11mo ago> Meta: recently it seems like the community has been way too loose with the downvote button, but I'm not sure if I'm just noticing it more because it's getting on my nerves, or if there has actually been a change in behavior. The term "orange reddit" feels more and more like reality as time goes on.
- fragmede 11mo agoSure it's not > "a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."? :) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- SoftTalker 11mo agoWhy does anyone care about downvotes? Is there somewhere I can cash in my karma points here for something actually valuable?
- ashtakeaway 11mo agoThere has been a change in behavior in the past few years, in fact it used to be that you could only become a HN member that can comment thus vote by posting a select number of threads before being able to comment. This actually kept the community on the more intelligent, factual, and serious side. Now it's not so serious. This used to be the only place that I could visit to get away from Reddit behavior. It seems like the more obscure a social gathering is, the less Eternal September it suffers.
- rozab 11mo agoThat seems like the opposite of what the quoted Reddit post says: >those with newer machines needed to either have the HEVC codec from the Microsoft Store removed entirely from [Microsoft Media Foundation] or have hardware acceleration disabled From this it sounds like it's been disabled at a lower level, but Windows still expects it to be there and so fails to decode streams unless hwaccel is disabled
- dist-epoch 11mo agoJust like the embedded GPU in a CPU needs a driver to work, the embedded video decoder/encoder also needs a driver.