Posts: 1386 from 2003/2/15
From: Central Europe
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geit wrote:
For five minutes or so. Then people start screeming "Why is there no h265 support? That is standard!"
Hand aufs Herz: It is not the standard and will not be for a while. We all know there are technically superior alternatives, yet JPEG still rules the Internet of Images(tm).
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And for the fun. Yes. h264 is getting more and more obsolete as h265 HEVC saves a huge amount of space. In most cases about 40-50% less data.
Yes, similar to those JPEG alternatives I mentioned.
For high quality content utilizing 4K resolutions or HDR, HEVC is unavoidable, of course. But these represent a tiny fraction of the available content and this is not going to drastically change within a year or two.
