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brooksbp | 2 years ago

How much better do you think a new codec needs to be to make it all the way to mainstream? 2x? 10x?

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Joel_Mckay|2 years ago

Better aesthetics and even 18% reduction in file sizes refuses to move the sleepy elephant (h265 is likely still fringe stage). Even a trivial codec licensing fee of $2.50 for Pi users was not very successful for many media formats (i.e. 10% of retail price kills most of the market). However, h264 support was important enough to wrap into the pi4 retail price, and even at 11m/pcs a month there is still no stock available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygU2bCx2Z3g

brooksbp|2 years ago

I would like to think that integrating reconfigurable logic into chips will help. But, no idea if the economics makes sense. And, the ecosystem around managing that pretty much does not exist.