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The largest VOD services stopped using H.264 in any meaningful way or only as a last resort, bandwidth is just too expensive to justify using it. Even phones in
by overstay8930 3y ago
The largest VOD services stopped using H.264 in any meaningful way or only as a last resort, bandwidth is just too expensive to justify using it. Even phones in third world countries include VP9 and HEVC hw decode, it's rare to run into someone who can only play H.264 unless you are walking in sub-Saharan Africa.
- adamomada 3y agoIf you look at the scene (aka piracy) every rip from every service is in AVC for FHD or HEVC for UHD. I know you mentioned last resort but the only legit streaming service I have at the moment is Apple TV+ and on fire tv’s at least they are sending h264 I’m also in iptvland and every rip from every live service is in h264 as well, with rare UHD feeds using h265 with HLG for HDR (For clarification, rip means the exact bits sent from the service with no reencoding, just stripping drm)