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Firefox 137 To Support HEVC/H.265 Video Playback On Linux With VA-API (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 18 hours ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Why do I want h265. Didnt the copyright on h264 finally run out, so now I can use it without a license finally?

I'm not going to be using h265

[–] cron@feddit.org 24 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

VA-API is Video Acceleration API

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, it says so in the first paragraph

[–] cron@feddit.org 6 points 11 hours ago

True. But at least for me, VA-API was not a known abbreviation, that's why I copied the long form here.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

only like.. a fucking decade late or something? jesus

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 18 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This was intentional. The goal was to discourage the adoption of non-free codecs. They were partially successful, now AV1 is very widely supported (basically only older iThings that don't have hardware decoding support don't support it) which is a huge win because anyone can now deliver video on the web without needing a license to a proprietary codec. I would consider this fact alone a huge benefit and worth them holding other browsers asses to the flame.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago

I definitely think this was a good move. Proprietary video codecs are silly and I'm glad VP9 and AV1 have been so widely adopted. I do wish more services used them instead of h.264 but at least it's something.

[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 31 points 18 hours ago

Finally

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 points 17 hours ago

Firefox indeed.

[–] Generous1146@beehaw.org 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Hell yeah, can't wait to transcode all my movies again 🥲

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 12 points 12 hours ago

Why, use an open source standard. AV1 for the win