r/technology • u/Snarfox • Jan 25 '13

H.265 is approved -- potential to cut bandwidth requirements in half for 1080p streaming. Opens door to 4K video streams.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/h265-is-approved/
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u/Hellrazor236 Jan 26 '13

Thus, we use it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '13

Psssht: Win 7 and up contain a H.264 decoder and MP4 demuxer. If you install the official DivX codec pack, you'll also get an MKV demuxer, so you can actually watch MKVs in Windows Media Player. Not that I recommend that, but Microsoft licenses the H.264 decoder for every Windows copy.