Uhh, you realize that NetFlix is streaming HEVC 4K content over the Internet, right? And they're doing it at 15.6Mbps; not much higher than a good AVC encode and lower than many. Even at much higher bitrates, 802.11ac should allow for this with no problems.
And the Internet is considerably more reliable than the WiFi setups in most homes. WiFi (n/ac) carries more than enough bandwidth in the spec but is very often limited in real world usage by the poor configuration in place on the hardware. You would be surprised at the number of people that run b/g/n compatibility mode on their router and are shocked at how slow it seems. Or they can't figure out that each time they turn on their microwave that they can't get enough throughput.
Also, tell me how many platforms Netflix supports for HEVC 4K content currently. And how many of those same pieces of hardware support Plex? Not that many at all.
I wasn't trying to convince anyone of anything lol. I was just stating the gains are much better on average for me then reported by the previus reference of
Under the dome S1E01 1080p Q=21.5 AVC : 2.66 GB
Under the dome S1E01 1080p Q=21.5 HEVC : 1.60 GB
I was just pointing out that I had converted 4 movies and about 6 tv shows all 1080o and reduced the movies by 80-90% and the tv shows by 60-80%
XBMC/KODI posted on Facebook it got HEVC from ffmpeg today.
Though they said it needs i7 to play it!!?
It seems to be true. Right now, there are no hardware decoding solutions out there, only software, which would justify the horrendous amount of horsepower required to decode.
On another note, right now HEVC encoding is in its infancy. I took a look recently at one of my music videos I encoded from a DVD when Handbrake (and H.264) was in its infancy, and an iTunes store bought music video (though of a different song) bought today. Night and day difference between the two, clearly favoring the iTunes copy.
Give it time, unless Apple supports hardware decoding or others put more pressure on the tech companies to upgrade, HEVC adoption will take longer and quality will still be the pits.
HVEC hardware decodde support was added to intel HD graphics via a driver update a month or two ago... So the support is there on my system already... and i'm guessing alot of us too. This is important to me so i've liked the first post...
HEVC decode now supported by the driver and video players can now take advantage of the GPU accelerated decode support offered by Intel
First time I have been successfully playing h265 content with the Plex Android App on a rather old Galaxy Tab 2.
I installed VLC nightly build for Android and set the app to use it as external player.
The content was a DVD movie I had previously converted to h265 (HEVC + AAC). The file was just 260 MB for a regular DVD movie (1:40'', original MKV: 1,6 GB)
(I had no success though with any 4k movies yet on any Android device).
I hope this information is helpful to other users interested in h265 support.
I never thought this to be HD content since I ripped it from a DVD. To be precise the original was 720x576 (PAL-DVD) but I removed the black borders. The quality of the encoding seems also to be ok.
The cool thing is that some “working” solutions for h265 are starting to pop up.
