Bill Gates bribed the H264 and H265 consortium. Hardware Video Decoding is only legal on Windows or Android phones for which has been paid $16 per phone approximately. Microsoft earns more money then ever before and their main income became Android, iOS and Google Chrome. Microsoft has invested in Canonical to take over Ubuntu. Here a demonstration of Microsoft Ubuntu Linux build 16.04 https://youtu.be/ncYJk7GbdQY
So no Bill won't allow it. Always look at the bright side, Bill will donate to charity from your money 😉