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		acdha 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their ... > In theory Intel and AMD would pay the HEVC fees once, which is capped IRRC at $100M from all patent pool together. My understanding is that the licensing lawyers learned from Cisco doing that with H.264 for Firefox and there isn’t a cap with H.265.

ksec 3 months ago [–]

There is definitely a cap with HEVC Advance and VIA. Not sure if they have closed anything about the H.264 loophole.

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