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HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs (arstechnica.com)
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[–] tangeli@piefed.social 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it disabled in hardware, firmware or software? Does Linux enable it?

[–] FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago

Reading through a bit it sounds like it works on Linux, not on Windows. Folks are hypothesizing it’s disabled at the ACPI level because different drivers don’t help.