[adilparvez]

Related, how h265 works: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=167081

This is a great overview and the techniques are similar to those of h264.

I found it invaluable to get up to speed when I had to do some work on the screen content coding extensions of hevc in Argon Streams. They are a set of bit streams to verify hevc and vp9, take a look, it is a very innovative technique:

http://www.argondesign.com/products/argon-streams-hevc/ http://www.argondesign.com/products/argon-streams-vp9/

[agumonkey]

Heh, happy to see doom9 still alive and kicking. They were the n°1 resource in the early days of mainstream video compression.

[IshKebab]

It's not really alive and kicking. The forum is still active but the rest of the site hasn't been touched since 2008.