New H.265 codec on test - ProRes 4444 quality for 1% of the file size

[gogat0r]

Looks like a Qualcom SoC (Snapdragon 810) with h265 encode and decode should drop before the end of the year and be avaible in devices by early 2015!

 

http://www.dailytech.com/Leaked+Qualcomm+Roadmap+20+nm+64bit+Octacore+Smartphone+SoCs+Cometh/article36417.htm

 

 

Not even Intel's upcoming Broadwell chips will be able to do that.

[Ed_David]

this is an important breakthru for video.

[Ed_David]

downloading the stills I see a loss of resolution - but its not too major - but what's more important is that it's pretty close and it's 1% of the size! that's pretty amazing.

[PrebenR]

The difference is that H.265 is a recent codec with a lot more focus on compressing filesizes, for the cost of requiring more computing power to encode/decode. This means,

You have to get some Chernobyl batteries to power you device ;)

[ESGI Media]

iPhone 6 and Samsung NX1 already have support for it. HEVC also comes in a bunch of flavours. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#Profiles

 

And if you're really hardcore you can crack up the bitrates with the Tiers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#Tiers_and_levels

 

Lots of potential there methinks :-)

[peterwhite]

H.265 is in the developing steps and the wide use may still need some time. And even there are new 4K camera appeared in the market, like Samsung NX1, if you want to edit the raw videos, it still very hard to do that !