Comment by mapontosevenths
3 months ago
Literally every decent video application uses h.265. What are you even talking about?
Is this some Linux bigot thing?
3 months ago
Literally every decent video application uses h.265. What are you even talking about?
Is this some Linux bigot thing?
no. youtube and netflix both use h264+av1 as their codec options. Netflix seems to use x265 for a small subset (but it's somewhat unclear).
That's incorrect.
Youtube detects your capabilities and sets it automatically. Unless you're using an obsolete potato network or watching low resolution stuff you'll likely get x265.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853702?hl=en#:~:t...
Netflix is similar. It defaults to h265 for Netflix content (because they want it to look good). Partner/licensed content uses the inferior codecs that use more bandwidth to achieve worse quality.
youtube has never and will never come to support x265 they even tried to block support from chrome becuase they hate it that much they support x264,vp8/vp9, av1 and soon av2 they literally started and entire organisation to take on mpeg called aomedia
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