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Re:Windows HEVC video codec from Microsoft costs $0.99 by Kukumber on Friday August 05, 2022 @07:17AM (#32354500)
Are you a charity? why should you support the cost?

You already have to purchase a Windows license

They are a trillion dollar company

Apple supports it out of the box

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207022

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Re:Windows HEVC video codec from Microsoft costs $0.99 by JohnHaugeland on Friday August 05, 2022 @11:13AM (#32357306)
> Apple supports it out of the box

No, they don't. Apple just rides the hardware licenses, like almost all Windows machines do.

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