• PumaStoleMyBluff
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    2 days ago

    I wouldn’t say AV1 is really settled as royalty-free. Patent trolls have bullied all the major streamers into paying the same for AV1 the same as H265, and are already prepping to do the same for AV2.

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      2 days ago

      True.

      They tried, though. That was at least the premise of AV1.

      Perhaps that’s why AV2 has steam behind it; it’s a “second attempt” to avoid the patent trolls.