Re:Better Portable Graphics
by ksec on Friday July 12, 2019 @07:45AM
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Just a reminder all these comparison were made with very old version of x265. And while x265 as an encoder is quite good, it certainly isn't as mature as x264. There are certainly much better commercial HEVC encoder out there.
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Re:Better Portable Graphics
by ComputerGuru on Friday July 12, 2019 @12:04PM
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> There are certainly much better commercial HEVC encoder out there.
The x265 team has repeatedly attempted to refute this claim, but it’s a lot of throwing numbers and lots of mud back and forth between the different implementors. Do you have anything solid to back that statement?
Beamr 5 would be one. [1] But my x265 experience is with pre 2.8. Not sure how much improvement there is in 3.0 and 3.1.
My point is not that x265 isn't "good" in absolute terms, it just isn't x264 level insanely good. In AVC era, x264 was absolutely amazing in the details. And just to point out, comparing encoder is hard and depends a lot on materials and target bitrate.
[1] https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Post/Blog/HEVC-IP-Ow...
Re:Better Portable Graphics
by ComputerGuru on Saturday July 13, 2019 @01:40PM
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Yeah, that’s actually the one I was referring to. The rebuttal to it left me unsure: http://x265.org/beamr-hevc-encoder-comparison/ (it is also from a while ago, before 3.x I believe)