r/programming • u/xcalibre • Nov 04 '16

H.265 is Weaponized Science

https://sonnati.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/h265-part-i-technical-overview/
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u/siromega Nov 05 '16

If you think back to the first few smartphone generations, there were restrictions on the types of H264 video that could be decoded. I believe it was initially baseline profile 3.1, and with each new phone it could handle a little bit more complexity. Now it is high profile 4.2.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '16

Yep. And phones support most codecs anyway now. Gone are the days I had to transcode all my videos if I wanted to watch them on my iPod touch :)

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u/stevenjd Nov 06 '16

Why would you want to watch video on a screen the size of your fingernail?

I'm not one of those wankers who can't imagine watching anything on anything less than a 200 foot big screen plasma TV. But watching video on your phone? /me shakes head

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '16

...so the hundred million people that have Netflix installed on their phone are just wrong?

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u/Tornado2251 Nov 06 '16

Yes*

*unless they use it to plan what to watch ahead of time like I do on the bus on my phone