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Originally Posted by NikosD
It's late September of 2019.
I think it's time to declare project x265 dead.
It can't get any other AVX2/AVX512 optimizations and it can't improve quality in the same size any more.
Time to move on to H.265 hardware encoding and other codecs (AV1)
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x265 is generally an excellent HEVC encoder, and it's by far the best free HEVC encoder. It's _widely_ used professionally, and is actively developed. The folks at MulticoreWare are responsive, and extremely sharp.
It's far from dead. If it's dead to you that's fine, but that's not what the industry thinks. In any case, there's plenty of interesting developments in AV1 and hardware HEVC encoding,
BTW - all the off-topic posts related to an older version of this statement have been moved by the HEVC forum moderation team. Let's stay on topic, please.