H.265 is Now Officially Approved, is 4K Streaming and Broadcast Just Around the Corner?

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Dave Kendricken

01.28.13 @ 9:25PM Tags : broadcast, codec, encoding, h264, h265, hevc, hometheater, internet, spec, techspecs, television, tv, web, webvideo

Technology’s progression sometimes moves with consistent momentum, and sometime comes in spurts. For instance, processors of mobile devices regularly decrease in size and price with relation to power — while, at the same time, the speed of your internet connection may not change much at all for several years, and make a great leap whenever it does. Both of these tendencies of advancement seem to inform High Efficiency Video Coding, A.K.A. H.265 — the successor to that other codec with which we’re all quite familiar (H.264). Improving efficiency by around double, H.265 aims to set the standard for the next decade in video streaming and encoding — and it’s going to ease mobile data congestion and likely make 4K a reality much sooner than many would have anticipated.

We’ve already gone into a bit (a bit! Get it?) of detail as to how H.265/HEVC accomplishes its magical compression tricks — it basically has a lot to do with intelligent prediction, multi-threading support, and other ‘hacks’ that put the weight/workload far more on your CPU than on your ethernet …

By: Dave Kendricken

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