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Truly the worst codec, legally speaking. Cannot believe we're still fighting these things. I've never seen anybody have any such issues with H.264, AV1, VP9, or any of the older ones. Just like HDMI woes it's a shame that the heavily regulated standards won out over more open or fully open.

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H264 is controlled by the same consortium as H265. The only difference is that many of the h264 patents have expired over the last couple of years.

The free version of davinci resolve still doesn't include h264 support - presumably because they don't want to poke the bear. (h264 still works on macos because apple pays the licensing fees, and resolve uses the macos encoder & decoder.)

Yeah when I'm paying Nvidia 1500 eurodollars for a GPU I expect Nvidia to fork over a few cents to these industry clowns.

Asus just has to pay up.

My point isn't that these clowns deserve money. But if you want to avoid h265 because of licensing fees, you should probably avoid h264 as well. It’s the same circus. Switch to AV1.

Lucent v. Microsoft, $1.53 billion over MP3

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