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Why aren't more releases x265? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Nearing the filling of my 14.5TB hard drive and wanting to wait a bit longer before shelling out for a 60TB raid array, I've been trying to replace as many x264 releases in my collection with x265 releases of equivalent quality. While popular movies are usually available in x265, less popular ones and TV shows usually have fewer x265 options available, with low quality MeGusta encodes often being the only x265 option.

While x265 playback is more demanding than x264 playback, its compatibility is much closer to x264 than the new x266 codec. Is there a reason many release groups still opt for x264 over x265?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I’d be interested to know how many of the streaming services natively offer x265. If it’s not many, then I could understand why release groups wouldn’t wanna re encode (e.g. it wouldn’t be a true WEB-DL anymore)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Prob 0 % as h265 is like HDMI and needs to be licensed to be used. Sadly this has set up 265 to be a failure outside of piracy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's used for the majority of HDR streams and all Dolby Vision streams. h265 is the only codec that supports DV

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Every 4K WEB-DL I see uses x265. It’s extremely popular by streaming services.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Should’ve mentioned I meant 1080p. x265 or something equivalent is essential for 4k