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  1. Read the other posts which lay out the difference between the SOFTWARE codec and CPU decoding we have had for a while and will still have and the HARDWARE ACCELERATED codec support coming in the latest hardware. No one is "blocking" anything. Older hardware simply does not have the new circuitry built in for this that the new ones do.
    7 points
  2. Nobody is blocking anything. Only the latest gen CPUs have the hardware ASIC ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuit ) to decode AV1 in hardware. The generation after that will have the ability to encode it too. You need the GPU + right drivers + DVXA API which makes it available at the OS level + app which uses the DXVA or Media Foundation APIs to decode it with hardware acceleration. Otherwise you can always use AV1 software decoding (uses the CPU, not the GPU) - already supported by all leading media players - MPC BE, MPC HC, VLC (via dav1d software decoder) without Microsoft's codec or Windows 10's Movies & TV app if that Microsoft Store AV1 codec is installed.
    6 points
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Hardware RTX 20X0 did not support the AV1 codec on a hardware level according to the chart on Wikipedia.
    6 points
  4. Microsoft is not blocking anything: If there is no hardware support, MS cannot do anything. Of course one can still play AV1 videos with older hardware, but only in software mode.
    4 points
  5. As far as I can tell exclusive just means “not on Steam” these days.
    4 points
  6. I'm waiting for the update to my OnePlus 7 Pro.
    2 points
  7. thanks nvidia for selling new hardware that is not future proof Just Nvidia? How about calling out AMD? Or maybe, just maybe, their cards were already planned and designed before version 1 was ratified last year? Think.
    2 points
  8. New "business" notebook; Ryzen 7 & 8 GB RAM okay?

    I think 8 GB RAM is more than sufficient for what I am planning om doing with it... like I said, some basic Office, Internet (since most of the tools I used are online & subscription based), and some light photo editing. And, since Windows requires less and less system resources with each update/upgrade, and software is more optimized, for "lower end" GB's in notebooks and PC's, I think 8 GB will do (if it's soldered).
    2 points
  9. iPhone 12 lineup leaks, including pricing and availability details

    Can you please explain why this is a deal-breaker? You want our planet destroyed because we can't move for all the unneeded phone chargers piled up everywhere? There is a lot of things destroying the planet but charger blocks are at the bottom of the list.
    2 points
  10. iPhone 12 lineup leaks, including pricing and availability details

    Some of us like having our apple music library downloaded locally on the phone (when your daily commute, and regular road trips through the desert have spotty cell service in certain sections, its nice to not have the music break up). Also as someone else said...record in 4k at any length and that storage will fill up fast!
    2 points
  11. Record some 4K footage and you'll know.
    2 points
  12. Pakistan bans TikTok citing 'immoral, indecent' content

    Many popular sites/apps have at some point been banned in Pakistan. It's probably a rite of passage at this point. Pakistan is pretty friendly with China, so this is not "political" at all.
    2 points
  13. Pakistan bans TikTok citing 'immoral, indecent' content

    Not in Pakistan you don't.
    1 point
  14. Top 5 gameplay mechanics we love in video games

    I have to totally agree with the "Save Anywhere." I am an adult, i work full time, i have other commitments and i do not have as much time to spend on games as i wish i could. Manual saves are amazing because it doesn't make me keep repeating the same part over and over. Let me just master the part that i keep dying in. I am playing Doom Eternal right now and there was this one jump that i couldn't land perfectly, and it kept making me do all the ones that i had obviously proven that i can do. But with save anywhere, i also understand you can really screw yourself if you save in the wrong places. I think this could be replaced with with good save points (or many save points?).
    1 point
  15. Can't wait for av1 to become broadly adopted, so much better than H.264. Too bad we'll still need to wait for at least one new generation of gpu's to get hw encoding too.
    1 point
  16. Google wants to turn YouTube into a shopping platform in a new test

    No ads if you watch on a PC or use the mobile website on a phone or tablet. Only if you pay or use ad blocking software. There are ads before a video on the website. It is at most times solvable with a page refresh when in incognito mode. Everyone on a tech site should already be using an ad-blocker...LOL. I never notice ads on the website so they must be far and in-between.
    1 point
  17. I think the article was referring to the ability to play it on Steam, as it seems the only way to get it on PC was through the Epic Games Store. No, it wasn't. As I already said. I got it through the Xbox game pass on PC. Been playing it since release day. The entire article is dumb. The funny part is here: https://www.neowin.net/news/ob...aunches-on-october-25" rel="external nofollow">https://www.neowin.net/news/ob...lds-launches-on-october-25" rel="external nofollow">https://www.neowin.net/news/ob...rlds-launches-on-october-25 Look at author and then look at last sentence. 🙃 LOL! Classic! What a maroon! If you'd taken the time to read this post, you would see that I directly mention the game being available on Game Pass... Since I have to explain it again here, the title mentions the exclusivity because the Private Division deal with the Epic Games Store had it not launch The Outer Worlds on the Steam platform, but Microsoft managed to nab the game over to their platform without issue. As you might understand now, that exclusivity deal is ending, so the game is getting a Steam release. Thanks! What does the word exclusive mean to you? It’s not exclusive if MS has distributed it too... Maybe someone should get him a dictionary...
    1 point
  18. Read the other posts which lay out the difference between the SOFTWARE codec and CPU decoding we have had for a while and will still have and the HARDWARE ACCELERATED codec support coming in the latest hardware. No one is "blocking" anything. Older hardware simply does not have the new circuitry built in for this that the new ones do. Well, good that no one is blocking anything, because I didn't say that. Don’t get salty because you were incorrect...you said the 3000 was needed and then listed software that supports it currently, so yeah you were implying it was blocked. What you missed was hardware acceleration vs software.
    1 point
  19. New "business" notebook; Ryzen 7 & 8 GB RAM okay?

    I think it is soldered ... so it is either 8GB or 16GB with no slot for an additional stick. ...the memory is under the tape in this review --> https://www.ultrabookreview.com/41207-asus-vivobook-m533ia-review/ I don't see an additional slot anywhere unless it is under the board (which I *highly* doubt). According to this reddit thread ... the author said it was also soldered (he had the 16GB version). This was a question answered by him from another reddit poster. https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDLaptops/comments/hrx1lm/asus_vivobook_s15_m533ia_15_4700u16gb512gb_with/ Anyway, before you buy an additional module...crack open the bottom though I'm fairly certain (without actually having the product in hand) that it is soldered and non-upgradable.
    1 point
  20. SImple: you must spent money for new Gen hardware against new options. Basicly, you don't really need them until new game will not run at all.
    1 point
  21. New "business" notebook; Ryzen 7 & 8 GB RAM okay?

    Got myself a nice deal on this M533IA-BQ031T.... now 599 EUR (100 EUR off for today)
    1 point
  22. Their AV1 video extensions currently dont properly support AV1 software codec in MS Edge, can they fix that first maybe?
    1 point
  23. Hyundai walking car

    Hyundai Imperial Walker? https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/foreign/2020/10/08/hyundai-green-lights-development-walking-car-four-dog-like-legs/5913689002/
    1 point
  24. Epic game store exclusive? Since when? I've been playing this on my PC via the XBox Game Pass since launch... Hint. When something is available in more than one place, it's not exclusive.
    1 point
  25. Microsoft releases PowerToys 0.23.2 with bug fixes

    https://github.com/microsoft/P...s/wiki/Version-1.0-Strategy
    1 point
  26. Pakistan bans TikTok citing 'immoral, indecent' content

    All these moves if we are not careful could end up fragmenting the internet and dictate what we can and can't see, this can of worms Trump has opened up is allowing others to do the same thing and any service from any country could be a target.
    1 point
  27. Adguard helps.
    1 point
  28. Microsoft's first Xbox Series X commercial wants to Power Your Dreams

    Wow what a woke comment, FAIL
    1 point
  29. I've had the 2, 4, 2017, and now 7. Also, the Laptop and Laptop 2. I LOVE my 7. Only complaint is I wish the battery in the 7 lasted as long as the one in the Laptop 2 does. I'm also not sure why you are amazed an Intel Core CPU is faster than ARM at video editing. It's not aimed at that in ANY way. It's just for basic office/home use and MAYBE the occasional image edits.
    1 point
  30. I would first need a reason to use YouTube. The ads are working well to keep me away.
    1 point
  31. Microsoft will let employees work from home permanently

    Doesn't everyone have 300mbps download? Well 300mbps is too slow, I think I would take dial up instead. Perhaps you meant 300Mbps?
    1 point
  32. iPhone 12 lineup leaks, including pricing and availability details

    If you need an f'ing charger buy one. I think I could start a Charger Store with the amount I have lying about and never use. And the EarPods are ###### anyway, get some good headphones. I have 5 pairs if anyone wants to buy them
    1 point
  33. What??? You dont already have 100 charging bricks laying around the house?
    1 point
  34. I use my phone for shooting b-roll for videos, and 4k video takes 318GB for an hour of footage. So I go through about 500GB a day on a day I'm shooting (uploaded to PC). Good luck uploading that to the cloud. Ok, so most people don't shoot this much video, but my friends who have young kids or pets shoot about an hour a week I guess. Horses for courses.
    1 point
  35. iPhone 12 lineup leaks, including pricing and availability details

    The omission of a $30 charger is a deal breaker when considering a $700-1100 phone?
    1 point
  36. Microsoft could launch xCloud on iOS next year via the web

    This was what Apple wanted from the start with iPhone. They didn't want any local apps running and only wanted PWAs. It wasn't until a lot of developers cried foul that Apple made a way for them to develop native apps. https://www.cultofmac.com/125180/steve-jobs-was-originally-dead-set-against-third-party-apps-for-the-iphone/ Now Apple will have the platform they always wanted, so they should be happy if that happens. Yeah.....I'm sure they'll like losing control and more important, revenue stream....right on! Steve jobs might have had that position in 2007, we are in 2020, market is completely different.
    1 point
  37. I'm trading in my X for either a Pro or Pro Max. Not sure which one yet.
    1 point
  38. Microsoft's first Xbox Series X commercial wants to Power Your Dreams

    Cool video but... there's not enough next gen in this next gen video. In fact, it barely acknowledges there's a new Xbox until the very end. I like the concept of the video but it would have been more effective had the guy jumped between several well known Xbox franchises. Or even seeing the guy pop into Cyberpunk 2077 or Assassin's Creed Valhalla would have worked. As it stands now, the video fails to differentiate itself from the current generation of consoles. It could just as easily be a video for a One X.
    1 point
  39. Pakistan bans TikTok citing 'immoral, indecent' content

    These apps make the youth act and seem dumber than they actually are, probably a good move to ban this app and others that glorify idiots and challenges
    1 point
  40. Let's hope the fan size reduces noise to near silent levels. Fans doing the jet take off when only watching video was odd/bad. This. The #1 complaint of the PS4/PS4 Pro was sounding like a jet even when not doing much. If they're not taking this into consideration, I don't see how this would be enjoyable without stuffing it in box with sound proofing... According to limited Japanese tests, the console is rather silent and cool when gaming even in a pretty hot studio (30 C).
    1 point
  41. I don't understand the point having Slack when a company would already have Office 365. It's a waste of money having two different service that does that same thing but you get the Office suite too. It's a good reason why our government shouldn't be run as a business. LOL Slack is good with text & channels, bad with video & audio. Teams is good with video & audio, bad with text and channels.
    1 point
  42. Arm Cortex-A CPUs will drop 32-bit support in 2022

    32-bit apps won't run at all, and it's the right move, it's time to move on from 32-bit. People will be upset, as it happened with the move from 16 to 32-bit in the past, but it needs to happen again now, 32-bit had its fair run. I wish Intel/AMD could do the same, but that's not going to happen soon, there's so much legacy software out there. Backward compatibility is why people love Microsoft. On my PC, I am running even some 16-bit apps via emulation (for fun) but with hypervisor acceleration on 64-bit Windows 😂 backwards compatibility is good to a point. Microsoft has taken it to the level where it's now a crutch more than anything. Maintaining all the backwards compatibility is part of what has made Windows so bloated and inconsistent in many areas. besides bloat it also affects stability because it's just that many more extra legacy factors that have to be trifled with. Just imagine how much more stable and secure windows could be if 32bit and other legacy code were to be dropped. I'd also be interested to see how much the installer ISO would shrink after a purge/restructure like this.
    1 point
  43. Arm Cortex-A CPUs will drop 32-bit support in 2022

    When they implement this change, 32-bit apps won't run on newer CPUs, that's the whole point of "dropping 32-bit support".
    1 point
  44. Nor a permanent seat at the UN. There is nothing united about them. Get India in there as a permanent member.
    1 point
  45. I just had to decide between O365 and GSuite myself for my personal use, and went O365 (got tired of being a privacy night and all of the compromises with Protonmail and stuff). I went O365 cause of the Desktop Apps/Web Apps being top notch for office tools and email. Enjoy Microsoft's mobile apps a lot more also. MS is also *less* evil.
    1 point
  46. New "business" notebook; Ryzen 7 & 8 GB RAM okay?

    Looks like it supports 16GB. Not sure...
    0 points