Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome
by LeoPanthera on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @07:36PM
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HEVC encoding is far more mature. Encoders are faster, of better quality, and hardware acceleration exists. Additionally, for video playback outside of a PC, HEVC support is ubiquitous, AV1 support is virtually unknown.
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Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome
by mustache_kimono on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @08:20PM
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And -- universality of the playback. "Why don't people adopt Vorbis?" almost answers itself, "Where/on what devices are they going to play it?" Without looking -- does your Apple TV support X?
Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome
by alwayslikethis on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:58PM
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For the record, it seems like more and more devices are supporting Opus for general use cases. It seems to be the audio codec end game - at 16kbps it sounds as good to me as 64kbps mp3
Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome
by mustache_kimono on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:50PM
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> For the record, it seems like more and more devices are supporting Opus for general use cases
Yes, exactly and AFAIK it's because Chrome/Google/YouTube has recently supported Opus to the exclusion of these proprietary formats for higher quality (read HEVC level) video.