The Netflix series House of Cards will be one of the first 4K programs encoded in HEVC. If you've ever watched a DVD or Blu-ray, caught up with a show using an on-demand service, streamed a film with Netflix or laughed at the latest viral video, you have benefited from a video codec.
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As a video codec, H.264 can be incorporated into multiple container formats, and is frequently produced in the MPEG-4 container format, which uses the .MP4 extension, as well as QuickTime (.MOV), Flash (.F4V), 3GP for mobile phones (.3GP),, and the MPEG transport stream (.ts).
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HEVC stands for high-efficiencyvideocoding. Also known as H.265, this new video codec will compress video files to half the size possible using the most-efficient current encoding format, MPEG-4, aka H.264 (used on Blu-ray discs and some satellite TV broadcasts).
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H.264 Profiles and Levels. At a high level, there is some uniformity in the compression parameters available for each codec. For example, all H.264 codecs use different Profiles to encode the video. To explain, there are multiple encoding techniques and algorithms available in H.264 to compress the file.
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HEVC is twice as efficient as MPEG-4/H.264, and experiences only a minimal loss in quality. As a result, current content will need only half the data to stream over Netflix, and it will become viable to stream 4K content. The same video rate encoded at 420kbps in H.264 (left) and HEVC (right).
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High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265, is a new video compression standard, developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC). The JCT-VC brings together image and video encoding experts from around the world, producing a single standard that is approved by two standards bodies;
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But that doesn't mean all mobile devices will eventually support HEVC. For instance, Google has announced its own 4K codec, called VP9, that will be used with YouTube. Other companies may support that, or possibly both 4K codecs.
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What is HEVC / H.265? High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265, is a new video compression standard, developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC). ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) – publishes the HEVC standard as ISO/IEC 23008-2.
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Yes, if you have the right hardware. Newer televisions support 4K video via HEVC, though these TVs have limited 4K content. Sony offers its Ultra HD Media Player, a $700 4K video player that uses HEVC, which downloads content to a 2TB hard drive and is compatible only with Sony televisions.
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The initial version of the H.265/HEVC standard was ratified in January, 2013. HEVC was developed with the goal of providing twice the compression efficiency of the previous standard, H.264 / AVC.
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what does hevc stand for
HEVC stands for High Efficiency Video Coding.