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aliofwind
Jan 20, 2021Brass Contributor
HEVC video decoding broken with B-frames
When Edge Chromium playing HEVC video, sometimes video will be similar to stuttering but audio is normal. To find out the cause of the problem, I test to playback many HEVC video, include videos ...
HotCakeX
Jan 25, 2021MVP
I've read that Edge uses software decoding instead of hardware for HEVC so it all comes to the way the software is implemented
GrandDynamo
Jan 25, 2021Brass Contributor
Hmm I always thought that Edge offloads the decoding to the Operating System as I have read that Microsoft does not want to pay for the licensing of HEVC (complicated patent pools). I don't know a lot of Edge and the inner workings of it as I mainly use Edge for HEVC playback (intended to use) so that's interesting to hear.