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Re:H.264 Is Magic (2016) by Dylan16807 on Friday June 14, 2024 @05:31PM (#40685335)
Doesn't every state of the art codec do that, including H.264 versus previous?

Also I haven't seen charts of decode difficulty, but as far as encoding goes, codecs a generation more advanced can crush H.264 at any particular level of effort. The even newer codecs can probably get there too with more encoder work. https://engineering.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/AV1-Co...

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Re:H.264 Is Magic (2016) by cornstalks on Friday June 14, 2024 @06:15PM (#40685656)
Generally yes, but I wasn't only talking about compute costs. Mentally grokking H.264's features and inner workings is a lot easier than newer, better codecs.
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