The notice regarding the discontinuation of HEVC, AVC, and VC-1 support dates back over a year and concerned Synology applications (notably Videostation). Moreover, on Plex, hardware transcoding still works perfectly on “older” models (DS920+, DS423+, etc.).
The excuse of the HEVC licensing cost is laughable: according to my research, this cost is minimal: https://www.via-la.com/licensing-2/hevc-vvc/hevc-vvc-license-fees/
Furthermore, we are not asking us to provide an HEVC license, but simply an unrestricted J4125.
I don’t know if Dino Hsu has a complete grasp of the issue we’re dealing with. Either way, installing a CPU with an IGPU and not being able to use it is probably the dumbest thing Synology has done to date.
