Early H.265 Testing
Since it's announcement last year, I have been intrigued about the potential of the new High Efficiency Video Coding also known as H.265. According to the original specifications - the promise of H.265 is much higher fidelity and greatly improved compression over the current H.264 standard that has been in place for a decade. For those of us who rip/covert DVD and BR videos into libraries we can share or load onto mobile devices, the potential is very cool. Suddenly the ability to reduce the storage and networking impact while still maintaining video quality is a game changer. I have been waiting for some of the various ISVs to begin to integrate the new codecs in the their products and wanted to see how well this new technology works. So recently the folks over at Div-X release their HEVC Plug-in for version 10.1 of their converter and player products. And so I decided to give it a try. So here is the good, bad and ugly on H.265 conversion. The Good - It does work