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> Well OK, but what about H.265? It's one louder, isn't it? I had some old, gigantic, video footage (in a variety of old, inefficient, formats at a super high

> Well OK, but what about H.265? It's one louder, isn't it? I had some old, gigantic, video footage (in a variety of old, inefficient, formats at a super high quality). So I did some testing and, well, ended up re-encoding/transcoding everything to H.265. It makes for much smaller files than H.264. The standard is also ten years younger than H.264 (2013 for H.265 vs 2003 for H.264).

Melatonic 2y ago
Years ago I was photographing a party in silicon valley (had just graduated college and was taking any job I could get). I take a nice photo of a couple and the wife looks at me and says " You know my husband invented H264? Do you know what that is?". Ended up having a long conversation with the husband (the engineer) and he hinted many times that they were working currently on something even better. Years later now of course we have H265. Everytime I play something in H264 or H265 I think of that moment and how much work that guy and his colleagues must have put into coding such a widely used codec (and how proud his wife was!)
- drmpeg 2y ago
  She should say "helped to invent". Video codec standard development is most definitely a group effort.
  - illusive4080 2y ago
    You worked on MPEG?
    - drmpeg 2y ago
      Yes, from 1993 until I retired in 2011. I worked at C-Cube Microsystems and LSI Logic. In 1993-1994 at C-Cube, I helped develop the first real-time MPEG-1 encoder. The rest of the team was busy developing the 704x480 resolution encoder for the roll-out of DirecTV, so I ended up taking sole responsibility for the MPEG-1 product and brought it to market. It's thought that this encoder authored much of the content for China VCD. One notable thing I remember was watching the OJ Simpson chase on a test DirecTV receiver in the C-Cube lab (the same day that DirecTV went live). Here's a picture of the C-Cube chip. It took 12 of these running in parallel to encode 704x480 MPEG-2. https://www.w6rz.net/cl4010.png https://www.w6rz.net/cl4010.png
      - KronisLV 2y ago
        That’s really cool, thanks for sharing!

Melatonic 2y ago

Years ago I was photographing a party in silicon valley (had just graduated college and was taking any job I could get). I take a nice photo of a couple and the wife looks at me and says " You know my husband invented H264? Do you know what that is?". Ended up having a long conversation with the husband (the engineer) and he hinted many times that they were working currently on something even better. Years later now of course we have H265. Everytime I play something in H264 or H265 I think of that moment and how much work that guy and his colleagues must have put into coding such a widely used codec (and how proud his wife was!)

drmpeg 2y ago
She should say "helped to invent". Video codec standard development is most definitely a group effort.
- illusive4080 2y ago
  You worked on MPEG?
  - drmpeg 2y ago
    Yes, from 1993 until I retired in 2011. I worked at C-Cube Microsystems and LSI Logic. In 1993-1994 at C-Cube, I helped develop the first real-time MPEG-1 encoder. The rest of the team was busy developing the 704x480 resolution encoder for the roll-out of DirecTV, so I ended up taking sole responsibility for the MPEG-1 product and brought it to market. It's thought that this encoder authored much of the content for China VCD. One notable thing I remember was watching the OJ Simpson chase on a test DirecTV receiver in the C-Cube lab (the same day that DirecTV went live). Here's a picture of the C-Cube chip. It took 12 of these running in parallel to encode 704x480 MPEG-2. https://www.w6rz.net/cl4010.png https://www.w6rz.net/cl4010.png
    - KronisLV 2y ago
      That’s really cool, thanks for sharing!