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bit_user Why does the title say H.264? That's MPEG-4 AVC. H.265 is the ITU-T's name for MPEG-4 HEVC. Reply
wakuwaku Sometimes you wonder, maybe it's the human than is hallucinating, not the AI. When you ask the AI, indeed you get hevc is h.265, and avc is h.264. When you ask Tom, its the other way around…..so tell me again which is the AI and which is the human? Reply
bit_user wakuwaku said: Sometimes you wonder, maybe it's the human than is hallucinating, not the AI. I'm just going on pure speculation, but I sometimes wonder if they use some kind of tool or AI to "punch up" the article headlines and get them to draw more clicks. I wouldn't even have a big problem with it, so long as they adhere to accuracy. Yet, that's not always the case. And that part is true, whether or not any sort of tool or AI is involved. Inaccurate and misleading headlines are getting noticeably more common, here. Reply
erazog The claim H.265 not being part of the computer would adversely affect the experience is incorrect in my opinion, H.264 is the defacto standard used everywhere, the H.265/HEVC variant is barely used by comparison for internet streaming video. Loss of H.265 support would affect some portions of the market but not a deal breaker. Reply
bit_user erazog said: The claim H.265 not being part of the computer would adversely affect the experience is incorrect in my opinion, H.264 is the defacto standard used everywhere, the H.265/HEVC variant is barely used by comparison for internet streaming video. Yeah, H.265 was stuck in licensing limbo for far too long to be considered essential for anything other than UHD blu-ray playback. I'm sure all streaming sites will fall back on some other codec, if H.265 isn't available. Reply
ivanthechemist bit_user said: Yeah, H.265 was stuck in licensing limbo for far too long to be considered essential for anything other than UHD blu-ray playback. I'm sure all streaming sites will fall back on some other codec, if H.265 isn't available. Yeah, but it's not only that. Many phones shoot photos in HEIC and record videos in HEVC. Not to mention that bandwidth consumption increases with AVC compared to HEVC, and quality drops significantly (or both). Don't even get me started on things like OBS for streaming or on a lot of the built-in functionality for recording gameplay. While all tools have workarounds, they are just workarounds that underdeliver on what top-of-the-line devices should deliver. Both companies offer high-end premium gaming laptops, which are expected to deliver, if not for consumers, at least to preserve the companies' image. In simpler terms, if a computer doesn't support HEVC, I won't buy it. At this point, I am even looking at AV1 hardware acceleration. Reply
bit_user ivanthechemist said: Yeah, but it's not only that. Many phones shoot photos in HEIC and record videos in HEVC. Okay, fair point. I don't watch much phone-sourced video directly on my PC, but I'll grant you that. I wonder how many phones don't have a built in way to transcode their videos to another codec… ivanthechemist said: While all tools have workarounds, they are just workarounds that underdeliver on what top-of-the-line devices should deliver. But, that's a different argument than saying it's essential . ivanthechemist said: if a computer doesn't support HEVC, I won't buy it. At this point, I am even looking at AV1 hardware acceleration. Not me. Any GPU I own, where I care to do video playback, supports AV1. That's a fully-acceptable alternative for streaming videos. Intel iGPUs have supported it since Tiger Lake launched at the end of 2020. Reply
rooted erazog said: The claim H.265 not being part of the computer would adversely affect the experience is incorrect in my opinion, H.264 is the defacto standard used everywhere, the H.265/HEVC variant is barely used by comparison for internet streaming video. Loss of H.265 support would affect some portions of the market but not a deal breaker. I disagree. What percentage of 4K h.264 videos do you see? The vast majority are encoded using VP9, h.265, or AV1. Reply
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