And, realistically, I don't think anyone actually wants patent-encumbered video codecs; we're just stuck with them because bad patent law has allowed companies to have a monopoly over math, hurting the quality of unencumbered codecs, and because the patented codecs have wormed their way into standards so that they're required for interoperability.
It doesn't generally work like that, at least for codec patent pools. The royalty trigger is typically tied to the sale of a "consumer HEVC product" to an end user, and the "licensee" is generally the entity that sells the finished, branded product (e.g., the PC OEM), even if the silicon came from someone else. (I have a patent related to deferring royalty triggers for technologies like HEVC until they're needed: https://patents.google.com/patent/US11930011B2/)
Looking at this case, if we assume there is infringing software / hardware inside these laptops, then figuring out which supplier is to blame is Acer/asus's problem. Its not up to nokia to go through all the contracts.
Its kinda like in software. If I install your software and it crashes, don't blame your 3rd party libraries. I don't care why it crashes. Figure it out and fix it.
Philosophically, I completely agree with you about software patents. I don't even mind these legal battles because they push companies toward the patent-free AV1 codec.
This court is famous for being a racket. Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30135264
They are quite famous for creative bullshit rulings with regards to copyright, DRM and other digital stuff they pretend to not understand.
Like "Adblockers are illegal because they bypass DRM"
Like so many current trends in Germany and Europe. But the US is not better when it comes to IP rights and rulings. There is so much misuse of patent- and copyright and the legislature simply allows this to happen. That's what I would call government failure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_failure).
That's a lot of things the European Patent system is supposed to prevent, and exposes quite a number of loopholes.
I'll bite. How do you argue that?
Fine, so in addition to the fact that this whole action SHOULD be prima facie illegal in Europe; for the FRAND part (which is -to be fair- the weaker part of my argument, because this shouldn't be happening in the first place) :
* Forum shopping in Munich is at least somewhat unfair
* Implementors went $0.03, Uk court set interim rate of $0.365, now nokia is going for $0.69? We can argue unreasonable [1][3]
* Hisense settled at undisclosed terms, Acer and Asus were injuncted, so that counts towards discriminatory [2]
[1] https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/us-firms-secure-asian-impl...
[2] https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/hisense-settles-global-dis...
[3] https://ipfray.com/munich-i-regional-court-enjoins-computer-...
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.)
Asus just has to pay up.
Maybe my CPU settings weren't right?
Do you have a good guide for balancing quality and size? I’ve searched but never found something that really nails it for me. I have until now just been keeping everything as it streamed off the dvd or bluray in mpeg4 or h264 in an mkv and yeah, time to re-encode in to something more reasonably sized.
Normal CQ = 28 Aggressive CQ = 34
# Thresholds to detect ultra-low-bitrate inputs (use more aggressive encoding)
# (width, height) → min sensible bitrate (bps). If stream <= threshold, use aggressive profile.
LOW_BITRATE_THRESHOLDS = [
((3840, 2160), 13_000_000), # 4K ≤13 Mbps → use aggressive encoding
((2560, 1440), 8_000_000), # 1440p
((1920, 1080), 5_000_000), # 1080p
((1280, 720), 2_500_000), # 720p
((854, 480), 1_200_000), # 480p
]NVENC can obviously encode much faster, but for archive I'd probably prefer a better compression ratio if thats on the cards.
I have a feeling that the reason we get a new codec every couple of years is: money.