[pmarreck]

I just downloaded it for the first time in a while 3 days ago and noticed that H.265 exists and compresses twice as well at the same quality level... how in the hell did I miss that? (VLC will play them). I did a test on a full-rez MKV and worked great

[LeonM]

Most hardware video players (like Raspberry pi etc) can't decode H.265 using hardware acceleration, a RPi 2 (haven't testen RPi3) does not have enough computational power to play a FHD H.265 at 24FPS.

Until hardware H.265 decoding is introduced to the popular media center hardware, H.264 will remain the codec of choice for most people.

[snvzz]

> Until hardware H.265 decoding is introduced to the popular media center hardware, H.264 will remain the codec of choice for most people.

Might never happen, thanks to netvc.

[pmarreck]

link to the netvc issue?

[FullyFunctional]

Not an "issue", but an effort, backed by many high profile players, not least Google, Mozilla, and Cisco, to create an open, free, alternative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NETVC

[rockdoe]

H.265 only compresses twice as much as H.264 in marketing materials, or when not comparing to x264. It is trivial to change the defaults to give half the bitrate but you will not get the same quality.

[feld]

I just saw bluray rips of the same show on Usenet. x264 = 2.5GB, x265 = 600MB.

I'm not certain the scene releasers with reputations to maintain are going to release terrible quality rips.

[rockdoe]

The same people who insisted on 192 kbps CBR non-joint stereo for years? Hahaha...