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		brnt 39 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When a video codec wins an Emmy Some Sony TV's only hardware accelerate AV1 content through streaming services, and not through Blueray and USB... Right now, I have a drive filled with H264 content that I can hook up to any old hotel TV and play back. It's gonna be a while before I switch to AV1. And is H264 by now largely out of patent anyway?

stephen_g 39 days ago [–]

> And is H264 by now largely out of patent anyway?

Almost for the AVC High profile - WikiMedia track all the known patents here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_M...

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