Am I missing something or is that article&#x27;s conclusions pretty disingenuous. Then again the author did work for Google on VP9 so am not totally surprised.<p>Yes H.265 encoding speed is 10-20x slower (at the highest quality setting) but the decoding speed was only 20% slower than H.264. And it is still quite faster than 60fps below which almost all movie content exists.<p>If all that mattered in a codec was encoding speed VP9 would be dominant. But it isn&#x27;t. It&#x27;s largely irrelevant compared to decoding speed (majority of codec users) and device support. The latter which H.265 is in an unassailable position.