This codec was, as you probably know, developed as a successor to h.264 and is designed to offer higher quality than h.264 at significantly smaller file sizes and higher bit rates.
Owning a server is neither a necessary or sufficient condition for valuing or using the h.265 (HEVC) codec. We've seen it with other features in/for FCPX: the smaller the market the more it's a plugin.ītw: Larry Jordan isn't happy with Adobes implemention of h265.
I could imagine, Apple leaves it to some 3rd party plugin maker to teach Compressor h265 for the very few needing it. what will happen to Googles own VP9? And, as netflix, adaptive streaming. … for web-video, YouTube is still the 'master of desaster' (anyone remembers flv?). ? h265 decoding is very demanding, without a designated h265-chip a battery drainer ? Which Samsung phones have a designated h265hardware decoder? Does any future Intel chips contain h265-acceleration? (I don't know) What about phones/tabletts? ok, 4k on 5" is. Hardware acceleration is actually just in some TVs (Samsung axed their h265 cameras, which were the only ones on the market). Netflix delivers 'adaptive', h264/720, or 1080, and if the stream is fast enough (constant 15mbps… ) and buffered, switches to h265 - so, I think, they ask for some 'master' file (proRes?) and convert to their needs. Or, in other words, looks like 'broadcast technology', not share tech. What Tom (Wolsky) said: Do you own a server? ? H.265 (aka HEVC) is now in use by Amazon, Netflix, Ultraflix, and numerous other 4K streaming sources for streaming 4K video and movies.