HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card expires

Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by mindslight on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @01:27AM (#34689464)

It's a drag when you pull out a movie you haven't watched in a while, and the disc is delaminating. Or you're watching something that glitches in a particular spot and you just end up fast forwarding to the next scene to keep watching, forever skipping that part of the movie. And then you remember you paid money for that trash.

Also I don't see mpv/Kodi ever deprecating support for x264. And even if there were some compelling reason to leave the format behind, you can always transcode or just redownload.

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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by midoridensha on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @02:01AM (#34689638)

>Also I don't see mpv/Kodi ever deprecating support for x264.

Basically, this will never happen (barring some kind of planetary catastrophe). The software for these codecs is ubiquitous and easily downloadable. You can still download software for very, very old codecs that didn't get as much use as x264; this stuff is all built into ffmpeg AFAIK. This is one of the huge benefits of open formats (or at least formats with free software decoders; remember MP3 was patent-encumbered for a long time but there was still a FOSS codec).

Some weird proprietary format/codec doesn't have this benefit, such as DIVX (the DVD competitor, not to be confused with the FOSS codec).

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