Sony FMP-X5 4K Media Player does HEVC Netflix and 4K
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Nice to see HEVC (h.264's successor) picking up steam.
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toniglandyl
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toniglandyl
http://www.safe.fr.cr/Temp/Hifi/roadmap%20DVB.jpg ). I don't think content creators will want to change things as much.
you're comparing an uncompressed bitstream to a compressed one made for real-time streaming (for shadowplay). that's not really fair, as they are both for different uses. Sure, the quality is better on the YUV fraps recording, but you aren't going to stream that easily.
no excuses ? legacy support is a pretty good one if you ask me. Our HEVC decoder has relatively good performance, but FFmpeg hasn't approuved all of our optimization patches (I'm working on it). Needing a multi-core i7 to decode HD @ 60fps is hardly an ideal solution. I think that the first step into HEVC will be through what I call "the bastard SHVC", which is basically an AVC (H.264) base layer (let's say at 1080p) with an HEVC enhanced layer (at 4K), meaning that legacy solutions (all hardware AVC decoders) can read the 1080p layer while the AVC+HEVC decoders can read the full 4K bitstream. I'm calling it "bastard" because it's much better when the base layer is encoded in HEVC.
don't forget that HEVC has been specified a little more than a year ago. AVC is over 10 years old. You'll have to wait for tech to mature, bugs to be squashed, optimizations to be done and chips to be melted before seeing some big dedicated media server. I'd love to see HEVC torrents and such, but the tech is not ready yet.
my job is on a HEVC decoder (openHEVC), so I'm really aware of it.
DVB is pushing for 4K@120Hz, 10 to 14bit, 4:4:4 videos for 2017. (see this graph : Loobyluggs
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