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Others have guessed that it's because YouTube doesn't want to have to transcode videos into both VP9 and HEVC, but that's what they're doing for every video up to 1080p still anyway.
Some have guessed that it's because they don't want to license it and pay royalties to HEVC pool, but that didn't stop them from supporting H.264 in the past. Why doesn't Google support HEVC as well? I've never seen anything approaching an official answer to that. And, like H.264 before it, H.265, while still subject to licensing and royalties, has gotten widespread adoption by almost everyone in the industry, including and especially all the 4K and HDR movies and shows we're all streaming now all the time.īecause this time, instead of supporting H.264 the way they had with HD, YouTube chose to only support VP9, the successor to VP8, and the main alternative for 4K and HDR video. H.264 was replaced - after a much more complicated and nightmarish set of patent pooling agreements - by H.265, the High-Efficiency Video Codec, or what's commonly referred to by their entrant for most unnecessary acronym ever, HEVC.
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Then came 4K, and 8K on the horizon, and HDR, High Dynamic Range, and all sorts of video that promised to be far larger than anything H.264 or VP8 could efficiently handle at anything approaching usable compression rates.Īnd that's their one job - take giant media files, toss away everything the human eye can't really tell has been tossed away, crunch everything else to the full extent of math, and then provide the smaller file size with the least processing overhead possible. So, Google eventually had to reach an agreement with MPEG-LA and everything was as cool as that kind of cool can be. Patents are a minefield and infringement is capricious and cares nothing about intent. Now, just because Google or anyone else says or wants their codec to be FOSS-friendly doesn't automagically mean it is.
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The companies and people who worked on and distributed free and open-source software that required video encoding and decoding couldn't and wouldn't support a licensed, royalty-based codec.Īnd Google's VP-series, back then VP8, became the only really viable alternative. There was a problem though - free and open-source software. In the early days, there was a lot of uncertainty about those licenses and royalties, but it eventually calmed down to the point that virtually everyone came to support H.264. It has to be licensed from a patent-pool company, MPEG-LA, which charges a royalty for that license. But, the issue with it, is that it's not free and open source.
H.264 was and is the codec standard for HD video up to and including 1080p.
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