Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec

BrikoX ( BrikoX@lemmy.zip ) · 9 months ago

Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec

DFX4509B ( DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf ) · 9 months ago

How soon before x264 and x265 end up getting pulled and h.264 and h.265 support gets locked to Windows like is happening with HDMI 2.1 being blocked on Linux?

cmnybo ( cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ) · 9 months ago

Hosting and development would just move to a country that doesn’t allow software patents.

Goodlucksil ( Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) · 9 months ago

Does such a country exist?

pineapple_pizza ( pineapple_pizza@piefed.social ) · 9 months ago

Am I missing something? The title mentions h264(AVC) but the article talks about HEVC which is h265

Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec

Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec

Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.265 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec