The most significant finding from Netflix’s large-scale codec comparison earlier this week is that, according to Netflix’s VMAF quality benchmark, HEVC was about 20% more efficient than VP9 at 360p, ...

Thanks to today’s ultra high definition video and increasing complex demands for video editing, a new video format has risen to the throne, called H.265. This format, popularized by x265 and other ...

Netflix released new details of its own streaming tests recently -- including a huge effort to determine whether x265 (HEVC), VP9, or x264 should be used for future projects. Share on Facebook (opens ...

Transcoding company Telestream announced today that Vantage Transcode Multiscreen now offers HEVC transcoding powered by the x265 codec -- a first for a commercial product, the company notes. Benefits ...

I have an i7 8700K that I've been using for x265 encoding in handbrake recently. I'm a little surprised to find how slow it is, 20-50% of real-time depending on what I'm doing. I tried doing the ...

From all the testing I performed for this article, it's clear that HEVC provides the best quality at the smallest file size, if you're content with the downsides and restrictions that the format ...