2013-07-29, 07:54
There's different levels/profiles. Qualcomm might be able to playback something in h.265, but it most likely won't playback using the profiles that most people will want to use, which will get the most out of small file sizes.
But yeah, I think it won't be too long for h.265 hardware decoding to be an option on the market. I am looking forward to h.265, but I do think it is fair to say that it won't be (and shouldn't be) the general go-to format for at least another year, if not more. Unless people just want to use it with their personal collections.
XBMC won't be able to play back h.265 until x265 is worked into ffmpeg, and then we update XBMC with that version of ffmpeg.
It's pretty amazing what this codec can do.
But yeah, I think it won't be too long for h.265 hardware decoding to be an option on the market. I am looking forward to h.265, but I do think it is fair to say that it won't be (and shouldn't be) the general go-to format for at least another year, if not more. Unless people just want to use it with their personal collections.
XBMC won't be able to play back h.265 until x265 is worked into ffmpeg, and then we update XBMC with that version of ffmpeg.
It's pretty amazing what this codec can do.
