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Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative (ladybird.org)
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[–] accideath@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yes but: HEVC is the standard for UHD content for now, until AV1 gets much broader adoption. And judging from how long HEVC took to be as broadly available as h.264, it’ll still take a while for AV1 to be viable for most applications.

[–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The good news is no streaming service even supports UHD in browers (except Netflix on Edge?) because of DRM. So I don’t see the value.

[–] accideath@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My Jellyfin server does and on Firefox it needs to transcode to h.264

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

You could use an app

[–] Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Mozilla had the same problem with h.264 until Cisco allowed them to use openh264 and ate any associated licensing costs. Just from a cursory glance, HEVC licensing seems much more of a clusterfuck.