[PLUG] Can someone enlighten me on H.265/HEVC

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

I understand it but try explaining that to Reolink.

What it boils down to for many is either you lose $1000 on buying a new catalytic converter when the skanks cut yours off and run off with it, or you fork over $300 in cameras and cabling you do yourself, plus some hours on an older PC, to get video that allow the cops to catch the skanks

Since I want my own catcon left in peace I will help figure out how to support HEVC.  Foundational principles and underpinning values don't work on an empty stomach because you had to spend your grocery bill supporting some skank's drug habit by repeatedly buying new catcons for them to steal and sell.

Fortunately for us, the big boys like Intel and company understand this which is why they forked over the cash to develop AV1 and why they are coming out with CPUs with AV1 codecs.  They have had enough of MPA-LA just like Mozilla has, but unlike me they had the cash to do something about it.

But until then, me and Reolink are stuck with HEVC.

This is a game of elephants.  We are just trying to avoid being stepped on.

Ted

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Subject: Re: [PLUG] Can someone enlighten me on H.265/HEVC

"Is it possible to get Firefox to display HEVC videos?  Everything I have read indicates the Mozilla developers have some religious war thing going on with MPEG-LA and refuse to put support into Firefox for it -"

HEVC isn't supported in Firefox because it's no a license-free codec. 

Some people might color that as a "religious war", but those people don't understand the foundational principles and underpinning values and social contracts of Linux, Open Source and the Mozilla Foundation.