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Why aren't more releases x265? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 9 months ago by Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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

[–] satan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

[–] Shimitar@feddit.it 6 points 9 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.