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Comparison of h.264 and h.265 (1080p) - nooryani84 - 2016-03-10
There's been a lot of talk about H.265 video lately... so I found this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL22L0mRSDs
How accurate would you say this is?
RE: Comparison of h.264 and h.265 (1080p) - Ned Scott - 2016-03-11
Not sure, but wouldn't that be a really bad way to try and show a difference? The entire video gets re-encoded by YouTube back to h.264, so there's no way to actually see the H.265 results directly in YouTube. Even if one could, the encoder used to make the videos plays a big part in the comparison. You can have two different encoders make two very different H.265 videos.
RE: Comparison of h.264 and h.265 (1080p) - nooryani84 - 2016-03-11
Yea I thought about that. Though since they're both re-encoded by YouTube, any discernible difference in picture clarity would still be relevant for comparing them. Yea, theres a bit of a mess with the different licenses for h.265 as well which probably makes it even more complicated. I can't be bothered with h.265 yet, h.264 is great for my needs.
RE: Comparison of h.264 and h.265 (1080p) - PatK - 2016-03-11
(2016-03-11, 05:03)Ned Scott Wrote: Not sure, but wouldn't that be a really bad way to try and show a difference? The entire video gets re-encoded by YouTube back to h.264, so there's no way to actually see the H.265 results directly in YouTube. Even if one could, the encoder used to make the videos plays a big part in the comparison. You can have two different encoders make two very different H.265 videos.I recorded http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=263953 at 1080p file size was 600 mb, used handbrake at 720p h265 got it down to 60 mb, but Youtube would have nothing of it, encoded again at 264 x 720p and was successful at 112 mb so there's a big savings in size, while from my eyes the PQ was about the same.