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Comment by Varloom | Hacker News Reader

Every new software and hardware is moving towards the royalty free, agile and efficient AV1 codec.

But out of nowhere and 9 years after its release, they add support to the mother of all royalties HEVC codec.

Probably had some kind of deal to benefit their android partner Samsung, since they own pretty much most of HEVC patents.

Royalty free, agile etc. codec is aggressively pushed by Google on pain of removing support for and not allowing to run its products https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues

Also, support for HVEC in existing devices is already there and not going anywhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33339193

I could be that apple added hevc and heif to their phones

(I noticed this long ago when an older iphone wouldn't show imessage images directly from newer phones that were sending images in heif)

I could be that apple added hevc and heif to their phones

Apple made a big deal about HEVC and HEIF starting in 2017. It’s been integrated into macOS, iOS and tvOS since then.

The Camera app on iOS has defaulted to storing photos in HEIF since 2017 or 2018.

Create image processing apps powered by Apple Silicon—https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/10153

I'll consider AV1 a real codec when TV and movie torrents are encoded with it.

Samsung owns most HEVC patents? That doesn’t make sense given that MPEG LA is suing Samsung for HEVC patent infringement