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Re:Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time... by ZeroGravitas on Thursday June 27, 2019 @12:46PM (#20296136)
That's an interesting video, which part did you intend to support your HEVC winning claim?

Not the bit when he says AV1 looks much better than x265 (which he started and led development on) I guess.

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Re:Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time... by p0nce on Thursday June 27, 2019 @02:28PM (#20297148)
> which part did you intend to support your HEVC winning claim?

I suggest you see the whole video.

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Re:Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time... by ZeroGravitas on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:37PM (#20298462)
I did, that's why I was a little confused by your summary. It was a lot more nuanced than I was expecting.

I enjoyed the bit when he flashed up the logos of Netflix, Amazon, Vimeo, Microsoft and other AOM members as showing strong support for HEVC from streaming platforms. And the bit when he said that support by AOM member Apple was really key to HEVC success in America. Or that AOM member Samsung was putting HEVC in TVs.

The guy seems smart and informed, but the video had a lot of dramatic irony since many of the corporate big guns he uses to quantify HEVC success seem to be more and more vocal about their dissatisfaction with HEVC and plans to ditch it for AV1 as soon as possible, which is a phyrric kind of victory.

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Re:Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time... by p0nce on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:25PM (#20300321)
> many of the corporate big guns he uses to quantify HEVC success seem to be more and more vocal about their dissatisfaction with HEVC and plans to ditch it for AV1 as soon as possible

Do you have any source on this?

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