Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases
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  • Justifier@lemmy.worldEnglish
    361·
    4 days ago

    Here’s why it does matter

    Most server hardware thats out there right now doesn’t support av1 encoding, so all of those, literally tens of thousands of them in thousands of spread out data centers have to be replaced with brand new +$1,500 a pop cards that do support it before they can use it

    • Justifier@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      4 days ago

      And those servers are what process your Twitchs, your YouTubes, your Netflixs and etc services