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Re: by moniosi on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @05:18PM (#48753262)
i will never understand apples cuckoldry for proprietary codecs, if it wasn't for their adoption of h265 we would live in the av1 utopia
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Re: by kasabali on Thursday July 02, 2026 @04:43AM (#48758387)
because H265 predates AV1 by 5 years. H265’s contemporary was VP9, which was honestly worse than H264 done with a good encoder like x264.
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