What is the difference between x265 & x264 video coding?
What is the difference between x265 & x264 video coding? Which is advantageous?
x265 and x264 are two different video compression standards that are used to compress video in size but still maintain the quality of the video. x264 is an earlier codec and is used in a lot of videos nowadays and x265 is a newer standard.
Now if you want a technical description then according to Wikipedia:
“H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, Advanced Video Coding (MPEG-4 AVC) is a block-oriented motion-compensation-based video compression standard that is currently one of the most commonly used formats”
“High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265, is a video compression standard, one of several potential successors to the widely used AVC (H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10)”
But what does it mean in the real world. a video compressed using the H265 standard would be smaller in size and would be better in quality for a similar video compressed in H264. But the devil lies in the detail. Depending on whom you ask, both the standards have a lot of proponents.
Some proponents of H264 are of the opinion that since H264 uses a higher bit rate, hence the video quality of H264 is better, but then the trade off would be the size.
Proponents of H265 say that for the reduction in size you get, H265 provides a better quality then any of the other compression codecs.
Overall for the same size of video H265 should offer superior quality as compared to H264.
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