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How is serving better quality with less bandwidth "ham fisted"? Both Netflix and Google says the codec is better. If anyone was ham fisted it was Apple who foug
by TheForumTroll 9y ago
How is serving better quality with less bandwidth "ham fisted"? Both Netflix and Google says the codec is better. If anyone was ham fisted it was Apple who fought to stop free codecs'.
- acdha 9y agoHe explained that in the same sentence. An imperceptible quality improvement is not worth an order of magnitude increase in CPU usage, and the network savings aren’t enough to make up for dropped frames on hardware which is more than a year old.
- abritinthebay 9y agoNetflix says VP9 is 20% worse than 265... so what are you referring to?