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Thaxll on Jan 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: H.265/HEVC vs. H.264/AVC: 50% bit rate savings ver...

Hopefully ffmpeg will get speed improvements for H.265/HEVC, last time I checked it was way to slow to be used.

tracker1 on Jan 13, 2016 [–]

It's usually the case with new generations of software encoders.. I remember how long DVD rips would take in 2000... And remember how slow h.264 was when it became more common.

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