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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.
Re:H.264 is magic (2016) by p0nce on Saturday May 25, 2019 @07:24AM (#20008366)
Netflix is already using HEVC since a while.
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...