[mythtv-users] H265 support?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/29/2014 6:14 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 29/01/14 21:32, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 1/29/2014 3:18 PM, A Desai wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Karl Dietz
>>> <dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org
>>> <mailto:dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     On 29.01.2014 21:05, A Desai wrote:
>>>
>>>         I am just wondering if we have support to play H265 videos?
>>>
>>>
>>>     Support for HEVC landed in FFmpeg after we did the last sync, so
>>>     not yet.
>>>
>>>
>>> THank you. Will wait for the next sync. I have a couple movies and
>>> would love
>>> to see the smaller yet hopefully better videos.
>>
>> Just as H264 is vastly more intensive than H262 (MPEG2) before it,
>> H265 is
>> vastly more intensive than H264.  A 3.5GHz quad-core Haswell manages
>> around 1fps
>> on 1080p content.  It's cheaper to just buy the extra hard drive space
>> than to
>> buy the electricity to run x265. Unless you're constrained on space by
>> some
>> portable device, or on throughput trying to stream over the internet,
>> there's no
>> reason to be using H265 at this time.
>>
> ...unless H265 is what is delivered to you, of course. Then you have a
> file to have to somehow process into a format you can display.
>

It's not going to show up in broadcast or IPTV for a long time, and I 
doubt streaming sites are going to bother with it until support shows up 
in mobile hardware.