• ITU approves the H.265 format, will let people stream 1080p content with half the bandwidth and 4K v
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[QUOTE=Jookia;39374750]It's not an open standard, and has a bunch of people with patents claiming they own all possible ways to make videos on computer sitting on top of it.[/QUOTE] I don't really remember the legal restrictions around h.264 but iirc they were pretty restictive and the only thing free about it was that you could encode them, but not distribute for monetary gain. Goddamnit, this is a step backwards in my opinion. Shit like this will only further large companies (Youtube/Google) because they can afford it.
[QUOTE=PieClock;39375314]Sorry if this is a stupid question but I don't know much about video codecs and all that stuff, but would a 720p video also be improved if it was encoded with this?[/QUOTE] Yes, according to the article, videos can be rendered at similar quality to H.264 with about half the filesize. So they'd buffer twice as fast.
[QUOTE=TGiFallen;39375642]I don't really remember the legal restrictions around h.264 but iirc they were pretty restictive and the only thing free about it was that you could encode them, but not distribute for monetary gain. Goddamnit, this is a step backwards in my opinion. Shit like this will only further large companies (Youtube/Google) because they can afford it.[/QUOTE] Pretty sure you had to pay to encode it as well (Along with streaming it and decoding it), they lifted the fees for streaming and possibly decoding (not really an issue though), but there's still restrictions on distributing the source code for it (That's the reason Chrome supports H.264, but Chromium doesn't, and was a complaint Mozilla had before they started using the platform decoders) Edit: I keep saying Mozilla uses the platform decoders, but only on Android/"Boot 2 Gecko"/Vista+, and on Windows it's disabled by default and only in developer builds.
[QUOTE=mblunk;39375202]Of course 1080p can look great at native res, but my point is that supersampled content will still look better.[/QUOTE] Except the 1080p version is already supersampled given that it's being taken from a 4k source. Encoding a proper 1080p copy would avoid the issue of needing to streaming a 4k version to a 1080p screen.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;39381019]Except the 1080p version is already supersampled given that it's being taken from a 4k source. Encoding a proper 1080p copy would avoid the issue of needing to streaming a 4k version to a 1080p screen.[/QUOTE] True, shame Youtube doesn't let you upload your own high-quality copy at each resolution to spare yourself from their automatic conversion and spare them the processing power.
[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;39373482]Your hard drive writes at 1.5MB/s? You should look at getting a new one then.[/QUOTE] I've had that problem before, and the hard drive was fine; it was actually the motherboard that was messed up.
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