HP and Dell cut HEVC support in some laptops
HP and Dell has disabled support for the High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard in some of their laptops, Ars Technica reports. HEVC is a codec that enables the compression of large videos into smaller files while retaining their quality. Sixth-gen Intel Core chips and later, as well as AMD chips made over the past 10 years, come with built-in support for the standard. But as some HP and Dell owners on Reddit have shared, they found themselves faced with an infinite loading screen when they tried to view HEVC Content on a browser, like Chrome and Firefox. Ars Technica found documentation for some HP business laptop models, including the HP ProBook 460 G11, ProBook 465 G11 and EliteBook 665 G11, stating: “Hardware acceleration for CODEC H.265/HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) is d [...]
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