HEVC H.265 to achieve 4K video at 60fps using 10Mbps

Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/27/2013 09:07 AM | Source | 6 comment(s) ]

The upcoming HEVC (H.265) video codec promises to deliver 4K video at 60fps using just 10Mbps per second. H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the successor codec to H.264, which, like H.264, is jointly developed by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group and ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG). The primary goal of the new codec is 50 percent better compression efficiency than H.264 and support for resolutions up to 8192x4320. That's quite an impressive feat, considering most video codecs today require 20-25Mbps to stream 1080p HD video at high quality settings. The standard itself was approved by the ITU and ISO on January 25th and since then has been touted by various organizations involved as the future of HD video playback. Check the video after the break.

HEVC members claim that H.265 halves the data used by H.264 at the same or better level of quality. Docomo states that they plan to license their codec in March for Full-HD video playback on smartphones, which should enable much faster playback and video quality improvements, says BSN.

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#4539267 Posted on: 02/27/2013 09:22 AM

In other news, pirate groups around the world have experienced a simultaneous orgasm upon hearing this announcement, this was closely followed by a similar experience from the downloaders themselves.

In other, other news; the MPAA executives have ordered a large stock of acetaminophens in preparation for the months ahead.

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#4539299 Posted on: 02/27/2013 10:35 AM

haha, smartass

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#4539329 Posted on: 02/27/2013 11:56 AM

Lol

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Still is a nice new codec that will help handheld devices.
Smaller at same quality is very nice.

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#4539413 Posted on: 02/27/2013 02:32 PM

Seems great for attaching a phone to a TV, otherwise a little pointless since the average phone cant even fully display 720p video (not that they need to). Still, 10Mb/s is impressive for 4k pixels at 60fps.

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#4539419 Posted on: 02/27/2013 02:37 PM

Anticipating this catching on. Maybe I can actually survive on just a 256GB SSD.

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#4539426 Posted on: 02/27/2013 02:44 PM

Looking forward to CoreAVC adapting it.

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