Microsoft wants you to pay for video codecs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#P...
If you don't want to pay royalties for the use of a video format then use a format which is licenced on royalty-free terms like AV1:
That's the problem. It's going to be another decade before a patent that age will expire.
To avoid this kind of thing, at any point in time people need to concentrate on using either codecs of the past which are no longer encumbered, or codecs for the future intended to never be encumbered.
From about 2008 the advice became "VLC player can play nearly anything, just use that".