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They are disabling it because the license cost went up 4 cents? Just pass that cost onto the customer. Even if they mark that up several times, I would rather pay that than have my battery drained because I have to software decode a video.
There is still a lot of H.265 content out there. I have many terabytes of it that I don't want to transcode.
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NMZLZ57R3T7
You can still buy it yourself. It's only $1.
Not in this case, this is the codec, but still, because it's blocked in acpi, there's no way to enable it again in Windows, even if you pay that dollar. Workaround: install Linux
Huh? How could Linux solve an ACPI problem?
it ignores that and uses it anyway (according to the comments on the article, i did not test this)