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		samoa42 on Jan 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018) probably because h264 en-/decoding is supported in hardware even on dated platforms

klodolph on Jan 10, 2021 [–]

I said I was using x264, therefore not using hardware encoding.

samoa42 on Jan 11, 2021 | [–]

i see, apologies.

why do you prefer software encode?

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