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Oh, don’t get me wrong: I love better codecs and I want them to happen. I’m just with the person upthread who was saying H.264 will stick around: Netflix and YouTube can upgrade rapidly because they control the clients and have robust transcoding pipelines: if it saves 10% on bandwidth costs they’ll recoup the work quickly. It’s upgrading everyone else that’ll take awhile, especially since so much video is natively produced as H.264.


Netflix is already using HEVC since a while.


Yes - that’s why I used them as an example because they’ve published details about the benefits and how they compare codecs.

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/toward-a-practical-perce...




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