Shrinking Hevc

This write-up explores three distinct facets of this trend: the maturation of HEVC encoding tools, the hardware and software optimization race, and the existential threat posed by the newer AV1 codec that is slowly rendering HEVC obsolete.

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Unlike H.264, which was managed largely by a single licensing body (MPEG LA), HEVC patents were fractured among multiple pools (MPEG LA, HEVC Advance, Velos Media, Technicolor). This created legal uncertainty and skyrocketing royalty costs. This write-up explores three distinct facets of this

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c:v libx265 -b:v 1M -pass 2 -c:a aac -b:a 128k output.mp4 the hardware and software optimization race