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Trollface dev resists Sisvel’s UN squad demanding HEVC-H265 royalty payments
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The meme is a crudely drawn black-and-white comic panel. On the left, two soldiers wearing bright blue U.N. helmets marked with the text “UN” aim assault rifles toward the right; their faces are blurred. Under them, bold white caption text reads, “WE HAVE YOU SURROUNDED. COME PAY YOUR H265 ROYALTIES.” On the right, the classic grinning Trollface character holds a shotgun and, in matching bold white text above his head, shouts, “I HATE SISVEL I HATE SISVEL.” The joke portrays Sisvel’s patent-licensing enforcement of the HEVC/H265 video codec as an armed siege, expressing developer frustration with onerous royalty demands and the complexities of software licensing around high-efficiency video formats
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HEVC promises 50 % less bandwidth, but thanks to Sisvel it delivers 100 % more legal budget - true two-pass compression: your video first, your wallet second
The real reason AV1 exists: developers got tired of explaining to finance why their video streaming startup needs a legal war chest before writing a single line of code
When your video streaming startup's legal team discovers that implementing H.265 means negotiating with three separate patent pools (MPEG LA, HEVC Advance, and SISVEL), each with their own royalty structures, territorial restrictions, and annual caps - suddenly that 'just use AV1' suggestion from your junior dev doesn't sound so naive anymore. Nothing says 'modern web standards' quite like a codec that requires more lawyers than engineers to deploy
Enabling HEVC in your build isn’t a feature - it's a procurement pipeline that emits video as a side effect
VP9's 'royalty-free' utopia: until Sisvel deploys their patent enforcement swarm, turning every decoder into a billing endpoint
Codec design at scale: pick your tax - pay Sisvel for H.265, pay your cloud bill for AV1 compute, or pay Legal to explain why “royalty‑free” rarely includes you
I dond understand this Comment deleted
h265 (also known as HEVC) is a video codec that's used in a lot of things, but it requires you to pay licensing fees, much like mp3 originally did. sisvel is a company that protect other companies' copyright and stuff. So if you use h265 in a way that requires you to pay fees to the mpeg (yes, that's a company), sisvel is going to come knocking on your door with a DMCA and legal fees in their hands Comment deleted
@dev_void @Chess_player_1224 Comment deleted
Have you seen what ms did? Instead of bundling it in the 200$ windows where they would need to pay a percentage of that, they sell a plugin for 1$ so they only have to pay a fraction of that and keep the rest😂💀 Comment deleted
bruh Comment deleted
if i write and distribute a free h265 encoder/decoder, do i or my users need to pay any fees? Comment deleted
codec is the file format (that's also not entirely true, technically, but whatever) you mean a decoder/encoder and honestly, I don't know. Comment deleted
yeah, sorry Comment deleted
https://www.videolan.org/developers/x265.html i guess you can make a foss h265 encoder Comment deleted
huh, welp. I was wondering about ffmpeg and x265 Comment deleted
dahell Comment deleted
the reason why lgtv don't support dolby vision on matroska Comment deleted
ergo: - licensing fees bad - xiph good Comment deleted
Is it like a system wide media extension? Comment deleted
Lmao Comment deleted
Btw you can get the appx/appxbundle file from store.rg-adguard.net and if the app/game/etc doesn’t check for its own license it will just work. (You can only get appx/appxbundle with that site, no native xdk games or desktop stuff. Maybe msix/msixbundle will download too but not sure) Comment deleted
lmao Comment deleted
turns out ffmpeg is french too Comment deleted
the only good thing that came out of france 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 Comment deleted
that and the metric system Comment deleted
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fr (france) Comment deleted
exactly Comment deleted
Are you really calling ffmpeg good? Comment deleted
Yes. Comment deleted
Thats some low standards here Comment deleted
it's fr*nch tho Comment deleted
What is your goto alternative ? Comment deleted
Composite /s Comment deleted
gimmie link or atom name pls, couldnt find anything only phyiscs ans material-related shid Comment deleted
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_video Comment deleted
oh i thought you were talking about some program Comment deleted
Nah. About video “stream” if it still counts as one Comment deleted
hmm I like the devel libreoffice afrikaans package. it's libreoffice-fresh-af Comment deleted