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skrrtww on Oct 21, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The State of AV1 Playback Support

Isn't HEVC comparable? It may lack some sheer bandwidth efficiency, but it seems to make up for that with less compute cost. And the entire M1 line has hardware and software HEVC support.

edit: Oh, you said royalty-free. Fair I guess? I guess I'd be pretty annoyed if I decided to encode some personal project I ended up making money from with my M1's HEVC encoder and got dinged by royalty police.

MBCook on Oct 21, 2022 [–]

As of iOS 16 Safari supports WebM/VP9. So there is a parent free choice.

The codec patent is insane, you’re right. Pay to encode, pay to decode. Everybody pays.

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