Next-Gen Video Format H.265 Is Approved

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The ITU has approved a new video format that could bring 4k video to future broadband networks, while also making streaming HD video available even on bandwidth-constrained mobile networks. The H.265 standard, also informally known as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), is designed to provide high-quality streaming video, even on low-bandwidth networks.

The new video format is the successor to the H.264 codec, which nearly every video publisher has standardized after the release of the iPad and several other connected devices. It seems crazy now, but once upon a time, Apple’s adoption of H.264 and insistence on HTML5-based video players was controversial — especially since most video before the iPad was encoded in VP6 to play through Adobe’s proprietary Flash player.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/h265-is-approved/
 
When profits are possible (4K TV and Bluray sales), technology advancement proceeds at an astonishing pace. :)
 
I know they won't for a very long time, but i would sure love all the linux distros to come in this new format.
 
I hope that Handbrake implements this soon and that Mede8er will give us a FW update so that our existing media players can support it.
 
Ockie said:
I hope that Handbrake implements this soon and that Mede8er will give us a FW update so that our existing media players can support it.
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No hw accel. Not happening.

Space_Chief said:
When profits ar
e possible (4K TV and Bluray sales), technology advancement proceeds at an astonishing pace. :)
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BD are by definition not 265. Not happening.

Zyzzyva said:
I know they won't for a very long time, but i would sure love all the linux distros to come in this new format.
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Now this will actually happen.
 
HavocXphere said:
Yep. Except it won't be BD or be called BD...hence my point.
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I dont know, its the Blu-ray Disc Association investigating how to extend the Blu-ray specification. I somehow doubt the Blu-ray name will be eliminated, its what identifies the product in the market/industry. Most likely something like Blu-ray 4K or UHD or 2.0.

As mentioned in the article, backward compatibility is an area of consideration. They may mandate that the next spec carry both the 2K & 4K tracks so that if you put the disc into a current gen player, it will still play. This is exactly what they did with the Blu-ray 3D spec, you can put any 3D disc into a 2D player and it will play fine (in 2D).
 
Roman4604 said:
I dont know, its the Blu-ray Disc Association investigating how to extend the Blu-ray specification. I somehow doubt the Blu-ray name will be eliminated, its what identifies the product in the market/industry. Most likely something like Blu-ray 4K or UHD or 2.0.

As mentioned in the article, backward compatibility is an area of consideration. They may mandate that the next spec carry both the 2K & 4K tracks so that if you put the disc into a current gen player, it will still play. This is exactly what they did with the Blu-ray 3D spec, you can put any 3D disc into a 2D player and it will play fine (in 2D).
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BD XL is already available. I just bought a BD writer from Pioneer which can read/write BD tripple (100GB) and quad (150GB) layer disks.

Apparently it's possible to get normal BD readers to be able to read BD disks of up to 400GB with only a firmware update. However, the H.265 decoding will probably not be possible with firmware update and will need an updated hardware decoder.

This BTW already happens with 2D and 3D capable BD players. Older BD players can't handle 3D. So one had / has to buy new machines. Those old BD players sold for R4000. Now there are sub-R1500 players which can handle 3D.

Of course for me, REGION LOCK, is the worst limitation. Happily I can say that the BD writer I bought seems to be region free and on a Mac, the software player can ignore BD regions, so playing American BDs with local BDs is no problem. :)
 
HavocXphere said:
BD are by definition not 265. Not happening.
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BD refers to the Blue laser which because of a shorter/longer wavelength than the red laser of CD/DVD is able to burn/read data more densely. But you can get BD-ROM and BD-RW or BD-R and burn JPEGS or ASCII text files on it. It need not be AVC/H.264 video. BD-VIDEO is standardised to that video coding, just as DVD-VIDEO is MPEG2 video and not MPEG4 DIVX or XVID video. BD is just the raw disk format - without any video codec standards, otherwise blank BDs would not be named so.

As here:
http://www.uprice.co.za/p/Verbatim-43694-Blu-ray-BD-RE/3750/
 
Roman4604 said:
I dont know, its the Blu-ray Disc Association investigating how to extend the Blu-ray specification.
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Oh I hope not. It'll just create confusion & fragmentation.

Space_Chief said:
BD refers to the Blue laser which because of a shorter/longer wavelength than the red laser of CD/DVD is able to burn/read data more densely. But you can get BD-ROM and BD-RW or BD-R and burn JPEGS or ASCII text files on it. It need not be AVC/H.264 video. BD-VIDEO is standardised to that video coding, just as DVD-VIDEO is MPEG2 video and not MPEG4 DIVX or XVID video. BD is just the raw disk format - without any video codec standards, otherwise blank BDs would not be named so.

As here:
http://www.uprice.co.za/p/Verbatim-43694-Blu-ray-BD-RE/3750/
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Yes I know all that & its entirely besides the point. My point is that once you've got 2 entirely separate technologies riding on the same tech jargon (BD) its going to be absolute chaos for the man on the street. Just like USB, the main advantage is that its uniform & it just works. Once you start fragmenting one "brand" this is no longer the case and the you end up with half assed solutions like adding a 2nd track to make it work (thus reducing the quality of the 1st).

Space_Chief said:
Well BD 3D is still BD. It will be BD XL or BD 4K or BD extended, or BD+ or something like that.
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The encryption on BDs is already called that.
 
HavocXphere said:
Oh I hope not. It'll just create confusion & fragmentation.

Yes I know all that & its entirely besides the point. My point is that once you've got 2 entirely separate technologies riding on the same tech jargon (BD) its going to be absolute chaos for the man on the street. Just like USB, the main advantage is that its uniform & it just works. Once you start fragmenting one "brand" this is no longer the case and the you end up with half assed solutions like adding a 2nd track to make it work (thus reducing the quality of the 1st).
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We already have two confusing formats. One is called CD and CD Audio (Red Book) and DVD and DVD-Video (encoded as MPEG2 video/AC3 or MPEG2 audio).


The encryption on BDs is already called that.
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OK, something else then. :)
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