HEVC support? (new standard from MPEG; 40-50% > than H264)

[mduell]

"Also the current HEVC encoder (HM) is slow. Ungodly slow. Think frames per hour not frames per second. 10+ years to encode an average movie."

mduell, I have no idea why your tag says 'elite bright spark'.

"Vanguard Software Solutions Achieves Full HD at 1080p Software Encoding of HEVC (H.265) Running on Intel x86 Processor

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Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/09/09/ ... rylink=cpy

but, you know, don't let the facts get in the way of a good trolling.

I won't let a complete lack of facts get in the way of reality. The press release contains absolutely no details about what they've achieved. It may take them 10 cores ("a single Intel Xeon processor") just to do realtime H.HEVC (there's no number standard for it yet) at unspecified quality/efficiency/bitrate levels.

Show me where any HEVC encoder beats x264 preset medium CRF 20 at any of the following:
On quality at the same bitrate and encoding speed.
On bitrate at the same quality and encoding speed.
On encoding speed at the same quality and bitrate.

I'll wait.

[TedJ]

You'll be waiting for a while. In my experience press releases tend to be heavy on hyperbole and light on substance.