But they got too greedy (specifically HEVC Advance) by eliminating price caps, so Microsoft would have had to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for H.265, where H.264 caps out in the low millions. Click on the video player icon and choose from. Once the default apps menu opens up, scroll down until you can see 'video player'. MPEG-LA and HEVC Advance patent pools expected companies like apple and Microsoft to pay for it. From the menu on the left-hand side, click on 'default apps'. Right-click on the file type that you would always want to open in Windows Media Player, click Open with, click Choose default program, and then select Windows Media Player to set it as default for the selected file type.
In some cases orders of magnitude more expensive than H.264. Hi, You can configure the application with which you can open certain types of files from the GUI. How to change the location of My Documents folder in Windows XP Article ID, 310147 Last Review, 1 Title, How to Change the Default. H.265 licensing has historically been extremely expensive. This becomes cheaper, because the license was paid for by the chip company. But the result is the same as having browser support.
It is offloading decoding to the OS (Windows), and the OS is offloading to the hardware. In this case, the browser still does not support it. If that’s the case, click on the Choose defaults for this program option and check the file. This might not be ideal if you already have an audio player that you like. I updated the question because there are reports of it working in Edge when hardware decoding is available. Select SMPlayer from the list and click Set this program as default to associate SMPlayer with all files it can open which includes both audio and video files. And wide support is not likely to be added in the near future.