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6 May 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
“Yeah, a few of them are outside, and some other one that’s- And so it was impossible to license, right? And I think that several months ago, HP decided that they were going to remove support from HEVC in their Windows laptops because the, the cost was increasing of those patents.”
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…Oh, so every idea- … somebody patents it. Oh, man. Oh, man. People and their… How many lawyers are- I mean, it pays for a lot of lawyers, right? Like- The biggest issue is not the following, right? Because at time of H.264, the patents were, let’s call it, like, sane. But there was so much money in that— … that for HEVC, a lot—there were a ton of things that were pushed inside the specification, which are not useful in 99.9% of the time, but so just one could add a patent on it. And so it became that for HEVC licensing, there was MPEG LA plus another patent pool called HEVC Advance. Plus- That one … I think Nokia was outside of the patent pool. Yeah, a few of them are outside, and some other one that’s- And so it was impossible to license, right? And I think that several months ago, HP decided that they were going to remove support from HEVC in their Windows laptops because the, the cost was increasing of those patents. And it arrived— Nice…
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