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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by michaelt on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:55AM (#50422932)
> Using a 20 year old codec for 2.5% would be insane.

Surprisingly, in my experience h264 produces higher quality (better VMAF) for the same bitrate.

My theory is all the codec-optimisation attention went to h264 because of the crazy licensing situation of h265

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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by NavinF on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:23AM (#50423155)
The crazy licensing situation is only relevant to nerds, pretty much any chip you care about has hardware h265 decode.

You probably used the wrong settings. Netflix said "AV1 streaming sessions achieve VMAF scores that are 4.3 points higher than AVC and 0.9 points higher than HEVC sessions" 9 months ago: https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-s...

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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by michaelt on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:44PM (#50432683)
> The crazy licensing situation is only relevant to nerds,

Allow me to rephrase: "I can understand why an open source developer, when considering what codec to contribute their time to optimising, might not choose the one that has four required rival patent pools waiting to get rich from their unpaid work"

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