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HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 85 points 11 months ago (6 children)

synology also did this recently. shit should be illegal.

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago

    From the article:

    Last year, NAS company Synology announced that it was ending support for HEVC, as well as H.264/AVC and VCI, transcoding on its DiskStation Manager and BeeStation OS platforms, saying that “support for video codecs is widespread on end devices, such as smartphones, tablets, computers, and smart TVs.”

    Well, not anymore lol.

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    that was the final straw for me to switch NAS vendors when I next upgrade.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    What would you recommend instead? I'm about to get one.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Minisforum, beelink, aoostar and many others all make much more competitive offerings.

    No in house NAS OS, but tbh I recommend just taking the plunge to learn how to install your own OS, like Linux.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I haven't settled on anything yet. I basically just want something off-the-shelf which I can run containers on and has good version of Synology Drive. But I just migrated from Windows to Linux, and am finding this to be a sticking point. Synology Drive is available on Linux without on-demand sync. QNap supports QSync on Linux but only for Ubuntu, and it seems like manually unpacking the dev file and installing doesn't work with latest versions. Running NextCloud on QNap might be an option.

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