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We ought to just stop using HEVC collectively, the bizarre licensing scheme they've set up is just not worth it, and AV1 allows for better compression anyway.
by Deukhoofd 3y ago
We ought to just stop using HEVC collectively, the bizarre licensing scheme they've set up is just not worth it, and AV1 allows for better compression anyway.
- grishka 3y agoHEVC has a very wide support for hardware acceleration while AV1 barely has any, especially for encoding. That's important, especially on battery-powered devices.
- Diti 3y agoFollowing that rationale, why haven’t we kept using H.264, when H.265 started existing?
- crazygringo 3y agoWe absolutely did. H.265 took many years to gain traction, precisely because h.264 hardware decoding was widespread but h.265 hardware decoding wasn't. Codecs simply don't take off in a big way until the hardware decoding becomes widespread. And video sites will maintain dual streams for many years, to continue supporting older hardware.
- ksec 3y ago>Following that rationale, why haven’t we kept using H.264, when H.265 started existing? If my memory are correct at the end of 2020 90%+ of all online video were still on H.264. We are still pretty much H.264 only simply because it is good enough for most things.
- JamesSwift 3y ago_everyone_ uses 264 as the baseline fallback because every device under the sun supports it.
- Deukhoofd 3y agoThat very much depends. In browsers, the interface most users use nowadays, that is the complete opposite, where HEVC is not widely supported while AV1 is.
- grishka 3y agoSupported and supported with hardware decoding are different things. No one likes when their device gets toasty and runs out of charge in an hour.
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- MikusR 3y agoAV1 already has at least 2 patent rent seekers. That's about the same as HEVC had 2 years after release.
- redder23 3y agoSeeking is not getting. Care to elaborate? AV1 is a royalty free codec. 265 is not.