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Old 16th February 2023, 17:42   #81  |  Link
kurkosdr
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Originally Posted by FranceBB View Post
Honestly, though, we're here discussing about Xvid still being around, but can you imagine how long H.264 will stick around?
Forever. It's the "lowest common denominator" video format for the web and hence an essential part of the web standards (at least defacto). I consider H.264 to be the video equivalent of GIF: it doesn't have the bit depth we want it to have, or the compression efficiency we want it to have, but everyone has implemented its "high" profile so it's the lowest common denominator.

If you want to use something newer than H.264, you have to encode in both VP9 and HEVC (and deal with the patent mess of HEVC) because Apple still plays hardball and doesn't support VP9 in Safari. Or, more realistically, encode in VP9 and give everyone else H.264 until they decide to use a browser that doesn't such as much as Safari or whatever.

I just hope everyone agrees to implement 10-bit H.264 with HDR support, so at least FullHD HDR is possible everywhere. But even if not, expect H.264 to be implemented for the rest of time in browsers like GIF.

Last edited by kurkosdr; 16th February 2023 at 23:35.
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