Education & Numérique

The new video codec standard promising reduced file sizes, better compression and faster downloads its making its final rounds of approval while being gradually integrated into new products (the iPad already does).

Within a year or two it will be on our video export option list.

From the blog at Dreamtek.tv: "HEVC (sometimes called H.265) succeeds H.264 and is set to become essential to the development and distribution of high resolution video formats, such as Ultra High Definition.

The first devices to deploy HEVC support are expected to reach market early this year, Rovi Corporation announced at CES this month. The standard is expected to be ratified in early 2013."

"Once deployed, video consumers should be able to download video at the same quality as today in up to half the time, using up half the storage space when they do."

"HEVC/H.265 supports resolutions up to 8,192-x-4,320 and delivers double the data compression ratio of H.264. Where H.264 supports a maximum macroblock of 16-x-16 pixels, HEVC delivers up to 64-x-64 pixels."

Must read. 7/10

Find out more: http://blog.dreamtek.tv/2013/01/14/the-future-is-here-a-brief-guide-to-hevc/

More info on H.265-HEVC:

• http://hevc.info/
• http://www.vcodex.com/h265.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding
• http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2013/01.aspx