Instead of up-voting h.265, I think we should up-vote the now browser standardized webm and vp9 that also happens to be royalty free. I believe libvpx has been committed to ffmpeg.
It is still experimental and isn't well optimized so it wouldn't be well suited to devote much time to this other than for proof of concepts.
http://superuser.com/questions/705579/convert-video-with-vp9-codec-using-ffmpeg
+1. webm + vp9 + abr would be awesome if it cuts down on filesize bit still has great quality. A win for streaming and storing on the device.
+1 Youtube and FFMpeg have support for VP9 now and streams 4k content beautifully at half the bandwidth. Can't wait!
+1 for VP9. I’d love to see backend support for streaming and transcoding to VP9.
+1
VP9’s pretty awesome
+1
I’d love to see transcoding to VP9 or WebM as well. At present, my H.265/HEVC encoded files, web played through the Web App, are transcoded to H.264 for playback. If those files could be encoded to VP9 or WebM, then that would greatly improve performance.
@owenshome said:
I’d love to see transcoding to VP9 or WebM as well. At present, my H.265/HEVC encoded files, web played through the Web App, are transcoded to H.264 for playback. If those files could be encoded to VP9 or WebM, then that would greatly improve performance.
I don’t understand this. Transcoding from H265 to VP9 would take a huge amount of CPU power. This could easily lead to a lot more buffering as the CPU can’t keep up. So I don’t see what performance improvements you think you would get from this.
