Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases
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  • foggenbooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    16 hours ago

    You don’t need HW acceleration to playback AV1. Maybe they watch most of their content at 720p and are software decoding and it’s been good enough.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      15 hours ago

      Yeah you’re going to need HW acceleration to encode AV1 on your server “without issues”.

      Theres a world of difference between something that’s technically possible and something that will just work without issues of any kind. Something being “good enough” implies the existence of caveats. Mainly being that’d be a shitty experience lol.