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There already is no H.265 in practice. It exists, brilliant people spent loads of time on it, but it's useless. What's the fucking point? AV1 is a clear exampl
by mort96 3y ago
There already is no H.265 in practice. It exists, brilliant people spent loads of time on it, but it's useless. What's the fucking point?
AV1 is a clear example that non-patent incentives are clearly enough to make markets invent superior media codecs. And at this point, if AV1 succeeds, it will have succeeded in spite of the extremely hostile environment created by patents. If it fails, it will fail because of patents.
- fomine3 3y agoHEVC is widely used at this time except on the web. 4K Video recording on a phone or a camera is HEVC of course.
- mort96 3y agoRight, but you can't share that HEVC file. You need to convert it to something supported first (or have it be automatically converted by whatever service you're using).