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by 7speter
968 days ago
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Was it all but dead because people thought h264 was good enough, until 2.5 and 4k became more prominent in media consumption? It seems really useful if youre doing encoding at resolutions than 1080p, and it makes me less regretful that I have a bunch of recent hardware that didn’t get av1 hardware support :) |
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(Lack of) a compelling use case certainly played a role. Sure, reducing bandwidth is in itself a noble (and potentially profitable) goal but why fix it if it ain't broken? Ie.: the h264 infrastructure for HD was already there, working fine.
Another factor was that HEVC was full of new patents and the patent pool licensing costs hadn't yet settled.