Any demand for H.265 yet?
 

Wondering if I should bother encoding videos as HEVC H.265. I find it convenient to have the smaller downloads. Obviously no streaming yet in the browsers but they are pretty convenient for anyone who plays videos in VLC.

Have you guys heard any demand from customers?

Maybe I am missing something here but I thought that H265 was the norm ??

H.264 is the norm.

My bad 264 265.... So near and I guess so far...:error

Seems like a lot of the browsers are resistant to implement it in hopes that an open standard becomes popular first. They said the same thing about H.264 but they all ended up adopting it.

HEVC H.265 is already available in ffmpeg and can be viewed in VLC and seems like it is getting hardware support soon.

VP9 is free and being used on youtube in Chrome currently. Maybe I should look into that.

I wouldn't bother.

Several users won't be able to use them, will ask questions or may complain. Your cost-benefit ratio will be bad.

I suggest looking for something else to improve.

Good point. There's bigger fish to fry.

I don't know anything about adult demand for h.265 however, when I download movies I always try to avoid it and take standard ones.
265 is taking hell more cpu power on my older machines. Sometimes normal 1080p H.264 video works just fine even with higher fps while 265 is having problems cause the full cpu power is not enough on those machines.