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H.265 support is a patchwork in hardware though, look at all the recent Allwinner chips, only 8 bit H.265 playback is supported, despite quite a few H.265 files
by StudentStuff 9y ago
H.265 support is a patchwork in hardware though, look at all the recent Allwinner chips, only 8 bit H.265 playback is supported, despite quite a few H.265 files using 10 bit colors.
Worse yet, most Chromecasts and TVs don't support anything newer than H.264. It will be years before H.265 or any new competitor sees hardware support in most homes.
- DiabloD3 9y agoH264 was the same way early on, with several chips doing baseline or main profile, but not high. It's why I said (at the time) that H264 HW support wasn't important... being able to do Bluray profile (a specific variant of high profile) was what was actually important. Now with H265, Bluray 4k profile is important, ergo 10 bit support is mandatory, as well as display output itself being able to handle signalling for Rec2020 HDR10 over HDMI 2.x (or equivalent DP).
- j1elo 9y agoProbably due to H.265 having much more expensive licensing costs than H.264, given enough volume. That alone might make lots of players in the industry to just prefer ignoring the new codec (and joining a joint effort for developing a new codec with more favorable licensing terms...)
- StudentStuff 9y agoYeah, VP9 will probably monopolize the market as the libre, royalty free codec. With Google and others boosting it, I'd be surprised if it doesn't win like Opus has in the voice codec arena for any new application.