The folks working on H.265 have already been producing material (http://phenix.int-evry.fr/jct/doc_end_user/documents/10_Stockholm/wg11/JCTVC-J0128-v1.zip http:

The folks working on H.265 have already been producing material (http://phenix.int-evry.fr/jct/doc_end_user/documents/10_Stockholm/wg11/JCTVC-J0128-v1.zip http://phenix.int-evry.fr/jct/doc_end_user/documents/10_Stoc...) to counter the belief that you must have hardware accelerators for video decoding. And they have a point: the _screen_, radio, etc. (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg03785.html http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg03785...) of most mobile devices is already using something like 90+% of the power, so even in the impossible case that hardware accelerators make decode itself use no power they can't make that much of a battery life difference, so long as the device was fast enough to decode in the first place. And this trend will only continue as devices becomes faster and process shrinks lower the computing per joule. But it's amusing to see some of the same people arguing that hardware accelerators were _must have_ are now arguing the opposite now that its their latest format which is suffering for the lack of them.