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Need to buy HEVC Codec?

MartinTheActor
By MartinTheActor
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Sooo, I may have missed something here, but I received a file from one of my actors to edit together a new show and when I went to watch and review the footage, Windows spit out the message that I would need to buy the HEVC codec. Now granted it plays just fine in my editing software, and in VLC player, but it caught me a little off guard when Microsoft were asking me to buy a codec to watch a video in their built in software.

Now I know that DVD playback has long since gone from windows, but is this a standard thing? Or has something gone hinky with my version of windows 10?

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Yes. Microsoft wants you to buy the codec for the built in app.

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8 minutes ago, svmlegacy said:

Yes. Microsoft wants you to buy the codec for the built in app.

What the actual ****?

I mean, the price isn't the most extreme, but we're talking about something bundled for free with other software (both free and paid for). What are they playing at?

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HEVC was made royalty free in 2017, they only reason for MS to be charging is the fact they know many users who don't know better will just pay for it when they see the pop up.

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32 minutes ago, MartinTheActor said:

What the actual ****?

I mean, the price isn't the most extreme, but we're talking about something bundled for free with other software (both free and paid for). What are they playing at?

Yep it's pretty damn stupid. Just to make matters worse, last year? they killed off the roundabout way where you could download an "OEM" version of the HEVC codec for free, now you have to redeem a code to download it. 🥴

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