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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] 62 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Go AV1... In my direct experience the space saving is simply amazing at the same quality.

265 doesn't seems to be the future since all Android are going to support AV1 by mandatory from A14.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

I recently started transcoding my media to save some space, and I went with h265 instead. AV1 will be great in a few years, but the hardware support is just not there yet.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Av1 would be great if everything supported playback, maybe soon. Tvs and chromecast with google tv 4k specifically. Somehow the 1080p one does

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Will still be at least 10 years away sadly for it to be truly ubiquitous... Remember I couldn't play x265 properly for quite a while.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I got an amazon fire stick, all the new ones support av1 and all android devices from A14 must support av1 too.

On PC vlc plays it just fine too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

It doesn't play well on older kit though. Even the Nvidia Shield Pro won't play them unless they're really low resolution.

265 is ideal for me, even if it's hamstrung on open source browsers.