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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by tpmx on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @01:54PM (#24767958)
I'm getting what looks like roughly a 6000 kbps stream (quick calculation from fragment size/m3u8 fragment duration). It looks very good for 1080p.

As a comparison I'm typically getting like 1500 kbps from Netflix on a 1 gigabit per second connection on their "HD" plan.

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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by foepys on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:32PM (#24768533)
Netflix is using H.265 with adaptive bitrate encoding if your device supports it, what codec is Apple using? Simply comparing bitrates is outdated.
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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by tpmx on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:52PM (#24768825)
With my browser (chrome) it was H.264. Still, I'd take 6 Mbps H.264 over 1.5 Mbps H.265 any day. I'm sure the apple stream was VBR as well - I tried to pick a representative/average segment to do the quick calcs on.
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