[Slamidan]

I still remember when my pc would take 24 hours to compress a dvd to a high quality h264 mkv, sure you could squeeze it down with fast presets in handbrake but the point was transparency. Now I'm sure for most normal pc's the time to compress at the same quality with h.265 is the same 24 hours, in 4k, even longer, I'm sure h266 would take more than twice as long easily.

Early pc's had separate and very expensive mpeg decode boards just to decode dvd, creative sold a set, the cpu simply couldn't even handle mpeg 2. I know its hard to believe but there was a time when playing back an mp3 was a big ask, all these algorithms could be made long ago, but they would have been impractical fantasy. Only now are we seeing real partial cheated resolution ray tracing in modern high end gaming hardware now which is a good comparison, ray tracing has been with us for a long time, only hardware advancement over decades has made it viable.

It amused me that they claimed 4k uhd h265 is now 10GB for a movie, that's garbage bitrate, they always ask too much of these codecs.

[samoa42]

> I know its hard to believe but there was a time when playing back an mp3 was a big ask

can confirm. audio playback would stutter on my 486dx if one dared to multitask.