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Old 17th August 2012, 17:50   #18  |  Link
hajj_3
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I suspect HEVC will be implemented far quicker than h.264 was because web streaming and paid movies/tv shows is a huge business now so there are massive cost savings for this. Also Mobile would be greatly improved with half the bandwidth being needed for video and would harm your data allowance a lot less.

I'd expect some hardware decoding to be on all desktop/laptop/netbook/tablet/phones within 2yrs of the standard being finalized. As for good quality software encoders probably 3yrs till some decent ones start to crop up.

I'm more interested in Daala - the free open source video codec that xiph/mozilla are creating which will be slightly better than HEVC yet will be patent-free.
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