[mythtv-users] H265 support?

[Raymond Wagner]

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.
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