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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by saidinesh5 on Saturday June 20, 2026 @03:00PM (#48611934)
Wouldn't HEVC licences already be paid by the hardware/gpu vendors on most devices? And Microsoft just exposes api for that hardware?

Is this just for a purely software implementation of it?

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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by kasabali on Saturday June 20, 2026 @03:38PM (#48612295)
Nah. Search for "Nokia h264" and see for yourself how they've sued like every single vendor in recent years, because they want to double dip.
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