nsane.forums Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 After the world has grown accustomed to the H264 format which is mainly used for compressing HD video, a new standard is on its way. HEVC should be twice as efficient as H264, with no quality loss The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), a group of technology experts formed to create new digital standards for audio and video compression, has a rich history when it comes to creating formats that affect everyone. Think of MP3, which is formally known as MPEG-1 Audio Layer III. MPEG-2 is used for DVD's, but also for digital television and some HD content. But the most recent standard that has become quite famous is probably H264, technically called MPEG-4 Part 10. It's used for compressing high definition video with small file sizes relative to other standards. But because digital media consumption keeps growing and traditional systems can't always cope with the increased bandwidth required, 450 delegates from the The Moving Picture Experts Group have agreed on a new draft standard which could have "an enormous impact on the industry." These words come from the Swedish organiser of the meeting Per Fröjdh, who's a manager for visual technology at Ericsson Research: "There’s a lot of industry interest in this because it means you can halve the bit rate and still achieve the same visual quality, or double the number of television channels with the same bandwidth." The new standard will be called High Efficiency Video Coding, also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2. Although the television industry probably isn't going to implement the new technique very soon, mobile service providers could incorporate the format into their services as early as next year, according to Fröjdh. Video is becoming a big part of all data sent over networks, and it keeps increasing. By 2015, it could be as much as 90 percent of all network traffic. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosticles Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 sounds pretty exiting, we could do with a really good new codec to bring us forward, and they is absolutely fantastic news that it can halve file sizes! like half my 500GB hard drive is video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanon Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 So, were talking HALF?Hell yeah. B)When this baby gets to the willing hands of rippers... imagine the possibilities. YIFY already does good quality in 720p around 700 megs - so he could double the quality with the same size...I see this talk about a meeting, when is the goodie due? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyko666 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 This looks/sounds highly impressive. Will be interesting to see how this plays out! :)Even if the television industry takes it's time migrating to this format, the possibilities in the mobile industry as mentioned would be fantastic.If it does in fact work as well as they claim, I can only see good things coming from this.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedrito Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Excellent news! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted August 15, 2012 Administrator Share Posted August 15, 2012 H.264 - half of - MPEG-2, H.263, or MPEG-4 Part 2.H.265 - half of - H.264. :oFor me, the best thing is, I get it first on the computer. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Santos Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Excellent news! More quality in less space! B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ck_kent Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Good news indeed! Same quality at half the size, and half the time to download too! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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