ITU officially approved draft of H.265 video compression standard

The new codec will allow you to transfer 4k video to each house at already available speeds, as well as make HD video more accessible on mobile devices. The H.265 standard, also known as HEVC, is designed specifically for compressing high-quality video and transmitting it even over low-speed networks.

The new format is the successor to the H.264 codec, which began to be used everywhere right after the release of the iPad and some other devices. Now this may sound strange, but earlier Apple's support for H.264 for HTML5 players was considered a controversial step, especially considering that before the iPad a large amount of video played through flash players was encoded in VP6.

Due to the improved compression algorithms, H.265 will allow publishers to use for streaming 1080p video is half the bit than now. This will make HD video much more accessible, and not only in homes, but mainly on tablets and smartphones, the speed of the mobile Internet on which leaves much to be desired. In places with broadband access, H.265 solves the problem with the delivery of 4k video. With the new codec, video transmission in this format is possible at speeds of 20-30 Mbit. Of course, this is still quite a lot, but many have such speeds.

Of course, a simple endorsement of the standard does not mean that tomorrow we will be able to watch a video compressed with a new codec. Perhaps, at the end of the year, only software decoders will appear, but the truly mass application of the new standard will begin after the release of hardware solutions. After about 12-18 months, the first devices with H.265 support should appear on the market. It is worth recalling that after the release of the iPad, the share of H.264 video increased from 10% to more than 84% in just three years.
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Using H.265 will reduce the load on the network and will improve the quality of the video. Personally, it seems to me that the new codec will be more likely to be used to deliver higher quality content than to reduce the size of video files.