>High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). You would think a codec first published 10 years ago is included in a modern operating system...
That's the problem. It's going to be another decade before a patent that age will expire.
To avoid this kind of thing, at any point in time people need to concentrate on using either codecs of the past which are no longer encumbered, or codecs for the future intended to never be encumbered.
