H. 265 Video Playback Support
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 10/11/2015 1:00:00 AM
Why is there so little support for H.265 video?
Chances are, most of the video files on your computer are stored in the H.264 file format. This is because the H.264 format (also known as MPEG-4 AVC) compresses high definition videos to a fraction of their original size. Without H.264, the files needed to play high definition videos would be too large to fit on a single Blu-Ray Disc, or to stream on the Internet.
Even though hard drives continue to get larger, and Internet connections continue to get faster, it's still important to make video files as small as possible, especially if your are streaming over a cellular connection.
That's why I'm so excited about H.265, the successor to H.264, which has the potential to shrink video files to nearly half the size of H.264, while still retaining the same video quality. This is huge. This can cut typical cellular data usage by 50%, and make it easier to stream high quality 4K videos.
The H.265 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard was completed, published, and approved in 2013, yet I haven't seen one major company release a video player that supports it. Apple started using H.265 to reduce cellular bandwidth for FaceTime calls on the iPhone 6, but other than that, they don't officially support it in anything else.
Apple should take the lead, and incorporate H.265 in their QuickTime Player, Apple Photos, iMovie and especially their professional video apps, Final Cut Pro X and Compressor.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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