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Re:H.264 is magic (2016) by wmsiler on Friday May 24, 2019 @06:18PM (#20005787)
>you hit play in Netflix on your phone — how many people would have any way to tell how much of their data plan that used?

Instead of focusing on the client, what about the server? How happy would Netflix be to reduce their outbound traffic by 20%? I'm guessing it's quite happy.

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Re:H.264 is magic (2016) by acdha on Friday May 24, 2019 @07:00PM (#20006035)
Oh, don’t get me wrong: I love better codecs and I want them to happen. I’m just with the person upthread who was saying H.264 will stick around: Netflix and YouTube can upgrade rapidly because they control the clients and have robust transcoding pipelines: if it saves 10% on bandwidth costs they’ll recoup the work quickly. It’s upgrading everyone else that’ll take awhile, especially since so much video is natively produced as H.264.
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Re:H.264 is magic (2016) by p0nce on Saturday May 25, 2019 @07:24AM (#20008366)
Netflix is already using HEVC since a while.
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Re:H.264 is magic (2016) by acdha on Saturday May 25, 2019 @10:47AM (#20009347)
Yes - that’s why I used them as an example because they’ve published details about the benefits and how they compare codecs.

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/toward-a-practical-perce...

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