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Re:AV1 beats x264 and libvpx-vp9 in practical use case by sjwright on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @01:22AM (#16808279)
Nobody's competition is x265 (HEVC) until its patent licensing situation is clarified.
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Re:AV1 beats x264 and libvpx-vp9 in practical use case by brigade on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @02:51AM (#16808663)
Of the streaming services that currently do 4k or HDR, only YouTube isn't using HEVC.

Actually thinking about it again, I guess most 4k porn probably isn't HEVC, though for other reasons I suspect. But Netflix, Amazon, etc. all kept distributing HEVC when the licensing situation was even worse than it is now.

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