[zerocrates]

My understanding is that YouTube uses at least some High Profile, and only Main for the lowest resolutions (though who knows how up to date that information is), along with of course VP9 and AV1 where they figure they can.

Anyway, if those claims bear out then it would seem like EVC has a possible future as an "AVC killer," though the computation complexity factors are complicated by the wide deployment of hardware acceleration for AVC encode/decode. Of course, hardware support could materialize for EVC as well, but it does rather complicate possible adoption for what we'll call a "sub-generational" improvement, in a world coming around right about now to AV1 hardware support.

Perhaps reduced computational demands could lead to a niche of usage in unaccelerated environments. I don't know if there's an example of significant uptake for an "in-between" step like this that one could point to as a possible model for success, though.

[drmpeg]

A quick check shows 360p = Baseline, 720p = Main, 1080p = High.

[ksec]

>My understanding is that YouTube uses at least some High Profile

Oh yes. I just double checked. I stand corrected. I was under the impression they only use high profile with MutiView Videos.