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Originally Posted by kadajawi
Not sure if that was posted here before, but some researchers (?) claim that h265 decoding can be done on an iPad for example.
http://www.v-net.tv/hevc-capable-devices-hit-1b-in-2012-ahead-of-standard/
Only needs a software update.
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HEVC will never catch on as a software-only update on current devices. It would just eat battery too quickly to be useful, although the newest phones and pads would be able to use multicore decoding and get some improvement, and one or two might figure out how to leverage the GPU for some steps. It will never reach ubiquity until it's baked into hardware, just like AVC, and just like MP3 and MP4 audio before it. At best, a small portion of people will use it for personal collections and a few companies will integrated it into streaming apps, but it will remain niche until battery consumption issues are solved.
It's too bad, because I'd love it if it rolled out everywhere today, particularly the still image part.