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[–] 111 points 7 months ago (22 children)

Hope this pushes the royalty-free alternatives more. That's a crazy jump.

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  • [–] 72 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    AV1 already wins handily as a codec, and the only thing keeping it from being adopted more broadly than is currently the case is lack of hardware decoders on older hardware. This problem naturally solves itself as old hardware gets replaced.

    Even then, dav1d is a remarkable piece of software, and software decoding is pretty viable for AV1 thanks to it. Many places have already adopted AV1, and you should expect to keep seeing it get adopted as time goes on.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (19 children)

    Which royalty free alternatives exist?

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (18 children)

    Theora, VP8, VP9, and AV1 are the ones that come to mind.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    What about Matroska? That was open to begin with, wasn't it? Is it not good for streaming?

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    MKV is a container format for bundling together streams of audio, video, and text. It does not provide the actual video compression, which is still typically h.264 or h.265.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Understood. They mentioned mpeg4 in the text, which (because of the MP4 container) got me on that route. Thanks for the clarification.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Unrelated, screw you for getting that jingle stuck in my head for another week.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (7 children)

    Lol what jungle? Or... do I even want to know?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Your username…now with better looking drivers!

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Oh! Hahahahhahhahaha!!!

    What country have I got? Hello?...

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    where did you get the number from, if you're not getting the references?
    not to gatekeep, i'm just confused

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    ...I do get the reference. Thus the userID, avatar, and name. And my previous comment, once I understood ayyy was referring to my username and not my previous comment. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    maybe i wasn't getting it, but i didn't remember a "what country did i get" line, although i can imagine it

    also i don't see an avatar or name, just the emergency number on my android client. i was gonna check it on my pc but i forgot.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Moss causes a fire, and tries calling number. He can't remember all of it, so he just enters some numbers to the tune. It's a hilarious scene lol

    Not sure why you don't see my avatar or name. I'm on browser, and see everyone's.

    Edit. Minute 1.27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The other answer you got hits it on the head already.

    Here's an additional piece of info you might like: The webm container format is actually a specific subset of Matroska. The big players in the web recognised that it was a very useful open container format and adopted it for the web. They took a subset to make implementation in browsers easier and more uniform.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Didn't Dolby just sue Snap for using AV1? Claiming it uses similar techniques to h264 or 265 or something?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Shit I hadn't heard of that. That makes me sad. I know from reading developer blogs at the time that they tried to use less established techniques in some places to try and avoid similarities. Let's hope it proves to be enough in the lawsuit. That would be horrible if some dusty encumbant can crush the new codec at a critical time of its global adotion.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    dolby technologies aren't even the most advanced, they're just the most marketed, most expensive, most cutthroat in the industry

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  • [–] 61 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    4500% increase

    Absolute financial parasitism. This is why we can't have nice things. People who own a license of something critical can just sit on their asses decades on end and collect unearned income from other companies who will in turn move to cost to the consumers.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Remember when Martin Shkreli was thrown in jail for hiking the price of medicine by 5555%? That was 2017, but when something like this happens in 2026 nobody bats an eye.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    See also: capitalism more generally

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I thought h.264 patents are expired

    Edit: it was patented in 2003, so 20 year period is gone already

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    Wikipedia covers it nicely:

    Since the first version of the standard was completed in May 2003 (22 years ago) and the most commonly used profile (the High profile) was completed in June 2004[citation needed] (21 years ago), some of the relevant patents are expired by now,[75] while others are still in force in jurisdictions around the world and one of the US patents in the MPEG LA H.264 pool (granted in 2016) lasts at least until November 2030.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding?wprov=sfla1

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    They see the stupid sony lawsuit and want in.

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