[mythtv-users] H265 support?

[Mike Perkins]

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.

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Mike Perkins