Doesn't seem to work for me, running chrome 107 on macos and the example does not load for me.
Google added HEVC support in Chrome
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Re: Google added HEVC support in Chrome
#12Why is this being done, when AV1 exists? It's hard to see HEVC as anything else than a legal liability.
There are a bunch of devices today that have hardware acceleration for HEVC decoding but don't have hardware acceleration for AV1.
Re: Google added HEVC support in Chrome
#13Why is this being done, when AV1 exists? It's hard to see HEVC as anything else than a legal liability.
Because HEVC is significantly more popular than AV1.
It is the default video format of iPhones and the standard for Torrents.
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#14Why is this being done, when AV1 exists? It's hard to see HEVC as anything else than a legal liability.
Most older hardware has HEVC decoding but only the last few gens have AV1. My 10980XE is like 96% occupied while watching AV1 without HW acceleration so many smaller devices can't do anything resembling a smooth playback.
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#15Every new software and hardware is moving towards the royalty free, agile and efficient AV1 codec.
But out of nowhere and 9 years after its release, they add support to the mother of all royalties HEVC codec.
Probably had some kind of deal to benefit their android partner Samsung, since they own pretty much most of HEVC patents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#P...
Re: Google added HEVC support in Chrome
#16No Widevine support so 1080p tops streaming; yay.
It's supper frustrating in 2022 to need to switch to my Fire stick just to play UHD(R).
Edit: Except with the Netflix windows app; it will do it.
Re: Google added HEVC support in Chrome
#17Has anyone got this working in Electron?
Re: Google added HEVC support in Chrome
#18Why do pirates prefer hevc over AV1? I assume they don’t care about intellectual property so I assume it comes down to technical quality of the algorithms?
Maybe they have moved to av1 and I just don’t know it. Either way the quality of the piracy scene has always seemed vastly better than legitimate channels, up until Netflix.
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#19Why do pirates prefer hevc over AV1? I assume they don’t care about intellectual property so I assume it comes down to technical quality of the algorithms? Maybe they have moved to av1 and I just don’t know it. Either way the quality of the piracy scene has always seemed vastly better than legitimate channels, up until Netflix.
Most people don't have AV1 decoders. So not very surprising that pirates too would choose to use HEVC.
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#20this site has 3 separate banners which makes it unreadable on mobile. i found this other source to be readable, but i’m not sure how they differ: https://www.neowin.net/amp/chrome-107-is-landing-today-with-...