Munich court tells Netflix to stop using H.265 video coding to stream UHD

Re:Munich court tells Netflix to stop using H.265 video codi... by KaiserPro on Monday November 13, 2023 @08:54AM (#38250122)

> probably started yesterday or earlier to replace it with something that doesn't have fees to use.

For netflix? its not that simple. Video codec design is a mammoth task. Sure you can make your own fairly easily, but making an efficient, hardware accelerated encoder that is suitable for broadcast work is one thing.

Making a spec for consumer hardware to implement, efficiently and cheaply is another.

go and read the spec for MPEG2, then compare it to MPEG 4, with all the amendments to make h.264. Its a lot of work.

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Re:Munich court tells Netflix to stop using H.265 video codi... by jdiff on Monday November 13, 2023 @09:43AM (#38250631)

Probably is a good thing that they've already been on the case [for 5+ years](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1) then.

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Re:Munich court tells Netflix to stop using H.265 video codi... by capableweb on Monday November 13, 2023 @02:41PM (#38254337)

I do realize this, I didn't mean literally yesterday as in "the day before today", but more "earlier in time".

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